As some of you may be aware, Bray Studios in England are in danger of closure and demolition to make way for housing. This would amount to the destruction of an important part of British film and cultural history. Bray was home to Hammer Films for many years (where iconic productions like
The Curse of Frankenstein,
Dracula and
The Mummy were filmed) and subsequently was used in the production of many other films (including
The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the model work for
Alien) and TV programmes (including
Space 1999 and
Dr Who). The
Save Bray Studios campaign, organised by Hammer expert Robert Simpson, is trying to raise awareness of this imminent threat and encourage others to do likewise. As such, if you love classic and horror cinema please consider taking part in the following, and inform others of it:
The
Watching Hammer blog (
http://watchinghammer.blogspot.com/) would like to propose next week (Sun - Sun) as a week of
Blog on Bray Days.
Please take part and choose a day next week as your
Blog on Bray Day to write a post on Bray Studios, the place they hold in cinema history, the danger they currently face, and what people can do, including relevant links.
The
Save Bray Studios facebook page can be found here -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106861216022812
The
Save Bray Studios blog can be found here -
http://braystudios.blogspot.com/
The
Watching Hammer blog has posted a list of suggested things people can do, including addresses to write and/or email here -
http://watchinghammer.blogspot.com/2010/07/save-bray-studios.html
Post URLs can be emailed to Watching Hammer which will collate them as links.
CMBA member
Watching Hammer thanks you very much and asks you to please take part!
