Arts and Film
Shepperton Studios are located here. Some of these films demonstrate of the breadth of whole or parts of films made at the studios: Carol Reed's The Third Man, Harry Enfield's Kevin and Perry Go Large, Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein, Ridley Scott's Alien, David Lean's A Passage to India, Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet and John Huston's The African Queen and "Lawrence of Arabia".
Shepperton was also the home of author J. G. Ballard and provides the setting for his novels Crash and The Unlimited Dream Company. It is also mentioned in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, in which its destruction is described. J. M. W. Turner painted fishermen on the banks by Walton Bridge which adjoins Lower Halliford.
Lower Haillford, a contiguous, as described now integral part of Shepperton, is home to Halliford Film Studios, opposite the Manygate Lane conservation area, built in 1955 and one of the very first film studios devoted to TV commercial production. It is to this day a fully independent film studio used for commercials, small television productions and other short promos.
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