Editing Twickenham Film Studios (section)

===Julius Hagen===
During the 1930s, the studio was run by [[Julius Hagen]]. Hagen built up his business making [[Quota quickies]] for major American studios, who were required by law to produce a certain number of British films each year to be allowed to release their pictures into the lucrative British market. Hagen became very efficient at producing large numbers of these quickies of varying quality. He often filmed all day, and then brought in different crews and actors to work through the night.<ref>Richards p.42</ref>

Following the success of [[Alexander Korda]]'s ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]'' (1933), Hagen became interested in producing films which could be released in America. Twickenham took on more quality work such as the [[Gracie Fields]] vehicle ''[[This Week of Grace]]''. This ultimately led Hagen to stop making quickies entirely and focus exclusively on "quality" productions. He began to make more expensive films, such as [[Seymour Hicks]]'s ''[[Scrooge (1935 film)|Scrooge]]'' (1935) and ''[[Spy of Napoleon]]'' for which he hoped to gain an international market. Hagen spent £100,000 rebuilding Twickenham Studios and acquired studios in other parts of London. He also broke with his established distributors and attempted to distribute his own films. This proved a mistake, however, as the major American studios blocked his entry into their market, while his films failed to gain access to the British market. In 1937, Hagen's company went bankrupt as part of a wider slump in British filmmaking that year, bringing an end to his reign at Twickenham.

Numerous films have been made at Twickenham Film Studios since the end of Hagen's tenure, including [[Carol Reed]]'s ''[[The Stars Look Down (film)|The Stars Look Down]]'' (1939).