Elstree Studios: Thisll Make You Whistle (1935 1938)

Elstree Studios (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire). Motion picture production. Filming This ll Make You Whistle (released 1938). Very good footage of film crew making a movie at Elstree Studios with Jack Buchanan, David Hutcheson and Anthony Holles; Dissolves between shots done in camera Shot looking over part of swimming pool at the cameras; etc. on left; actors on right. Great shot looking up at spotlights mounted on high platform; man from lighting crew standing behind them. Closer shot of cameramen filming 3 actors at table in a garden patio setting; microphone lowered on boom. Shot from raised position of cameraman; lights set up; director sitting leaning forward w, elbows on knees; and several men standing around watching; pan to the 3 actors (1 is Jack Buchanan). Buchanan another actor stand up exit. CU Actor talking to other; Anthony Holles as elderly part. MS director signals w, hand; as cameraman turns the huge camera on tripod. Cut to general view of room; w, actresses in bathing suit