page_title: Pinewood Studios
section_title: 1960s
hierarchical_section_title: Pinewood Studios / History / 1960s
caption_attribution_description: English: Goldfinger Avenue at Pinewood Studios
context_page_description: Pinewood Studios is an English film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. It is approximately 20 miles west of central London.
  The studio has been the base for many productions over the years from large-scale films to television programmes, commercials, and pop promos. It is well known as the home of the James Bond and Carry On film franchises.
context_section_description: The 1960s were buoyant years for Pinewood, which was no longer solely dependent on the Rank Organisation to fill its stages. "Renters" (producers hiring the sound stages for a film-by-film agreement) were using half of the stages as Pinewood turned into a four walls facility. The James Bond franchise began at Pinewood with the Terence Young directed Dr. No (1962), and has continued to be based at the studios since then.
  J. Arthur Rank (by then Lord Rank) retired as chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had begun to move the Rank Organisation away from mass film production and towards more profitable and less risky businesses such as bingo and holidays.
caption: Goldfinger Avenue
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