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Full-size Baker Street facade in Cricklewood Studios, 1921
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Stoll Picture Productions was a British film production and distribution company of the silent era, founded in 1920 by the theatre impressario Oswald Stoll. He bought a former aeroplane factory in Cricklewood, and transformed it into the largest film studios in England;[1] its 27,993 square feet (2,601 m2) of floor space allowed 15 sets to be erected simultaneously.[2]

Stoll produced a series of expensive films during the early 1920s, such as The Four Feathers and The Prodigal Son, which cost £37,000 – equivalent to about £2.6 million as at 2024[a]Calculated using the retail price index.[3] – and was at the time the most expensive British production ever.[4]

Stoll was slow to adopt the new “talkie” technology, and towards the end of the 1920s and into the 1930s, began to let studio production space to independent filmmakers. Cricklewood was sold to an aviation company in 1938, and the studios were demolished in the 1960s.[2]

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