Merton Park Studios was a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 production studio in South Wimbledon

South Wimbledon

South Wimbledon is a locality in the London Borough of Merton in southwest London, England.-Toponymy:It is marked on an Ordnance Survey map of 1876 as New Wimbledon and on a 1907 map as South Wimbledon...

, London

London

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. In the 1940s, it was owned by the Film Producers Guild

Film Producers Guild

The Film Producers Guild was a collective of documentary film companies in England. It was formed in August 1944 and had offices and screening facilities on Upper St. Martin's Lane, in London. They owned Merton Park Studios in south London....

.

Opened in 1930, many second features

B movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 were produced there, and for a time was home to Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg may refer to:*Radio Luxembourg , a Long Wave commercial radio station that began broadcasting from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 1933...

. Unlike many other studios, they remained open during World War ll, producing films for the Ministry of Information.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the crime series Scotland Yard, The Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a low-budget film series made as second features.They were produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between 1960 and 1965...

and The Scales of Justice

The Scales of Justice

The Scales of Justice was a series of thirteen British B-movies produced between 1962 and 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London.They were based on actual criminal cases and each film was introduced by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten...

came from a rolling production line. The last film made, in March 1967, was from the latter series, called Payment in Kind.

Amongst those apprenticed for a time at the studio was the composer David Fanshawe

David Fanshawe

David Arthur Fanshawe was an English composer, ethnomusicologist and self-styled explorer. His work is situated at the crossroads of traditional and modern music. His best-known composition is the 1972 choral work African Sanctus.- Life :Fanshawe was born in Paignton in Devon in 1942...

, who trained as a film editor there.

The actor/author Stanley Morgan

Stanley Morgan (author)

Stanley Morgan is an English writer and actor. He writes fiction, in the comedy and thriller genres and has had over 30 different books published since 1968.-Biography:...

has a number of pages dedicated to the Merton Park films he starred in.