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Passport to Pimlico, Ealing Studios, and Post-War Britain

Passport to Pimlico and Ealing’s Canons
Over the decade after its release, Passport to Pimlico became a cornerstone of how Ealing’s comedies and other films, as well as those of its…
 • Dion Georgiou
Balcon, Ealing, and Institutional Identity
As head of Ealing Studios, Michael Balcon routinely told a story about the studio that cohered with the narratives of the films it made, and helped…
 • Dion Georgiou
‘It Laughs with and at the English’
Passport to Pimlico’s contemporary reviews stressed the film’s qualities as a specifically national form of comedy, while also relishing its…
 • Dion Georgiou
Ealing Plots (Part II)
After the war ended, Ealing’s comedies and dramas continued to bear the narrative hallmarks of the films it had made about the conflict.
Ealing Plots (Part I)
The Second World War was the formative period for Ealing Studios under Michael Balcon, and the nascent mythologisation of the conflict became embedded…
 • Dion Georgiou
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Passport to Pimlico is often seen retrospectively as whimsical, but drafts of earlier versions of the film demonstrate a more sharply political edge.
 • Dion Georgiou
Ealing Studios (1977)
Published in the mid-1970s, Charles Barr’s Ealing Studios was a key text in the development of British film studies, but also embodied the declinist…
 • Dion Georgiou
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