Scroll through our pictures above to look back over the years the studios, plus what it could look like in the future.

The film studios which spawned blockbuster movies like War Horse, Star Wars, Superman, ET and Eyes Wide Shut until it closed last year is about to make a comeback as a real life mini Beverley Hills.

The 12-acre site of Denham Studios has been sold to a housebuilder.

Weston Homes plans to build 224 homes in what will become a new £120m movie-inspired village.

Forty nine apartments in a mix of sizes from one-three bedrooms will be converted from the Grade II listed head office and film laboratory built in 1936 for the studio founder Alexander Korda.

The main 66,740 sq ft white rendered Art Deco building ringed by balconies resembles a 1930s ocean liner.

It was where many of the legendary names in the cinema industry came to process, edit and review their films, men like Korda, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spelberg, Cubby Broccoli, Michael Winner, Peter Jackson, and Ridley Scott.

During the 1930s over 1,200 people worked there and even into the late 1970s there were 700 employees based at the studios.

During its heyday more than five hundred million feet of film were shot at Denham every year. Movies made at the Buckinghamshire studios were distributed to cinemas all over the world.

The top floor contained a suite of plush offices including the board room where the table and chairs came from the set of My Fair Lady.

Behind the main building was a large water tank used for scenes in some of the best remembered films in the history of cinema including The Cruel Sea made in 1953 and The Dam Busters (1955).

On the ground floor of the film laboratory were two plush mini theatres where Hollywood directors watched the rushes. One of these rooms is being preserved as a cinema and club for the future residents who come to live in the development which will keep the name forever associated with its past – Denham Film Studios.

In 1939 the studios were sold to the Rank Organisation who owned nearby Pinewood.

During World War 11 the labs were taken over by the US Military. It was here they reviewed top secret film and photographs taken over Nazi occupied Europe to help with our defence.

When the war ended the studios were returned Rank.

The site closed in March 2014.

The main building with its Art Deco stairwell will gain a new glass roofed central atrium radiating natural light through the floors from top to bottom.

Either side of the former lab and head office will be green squares and communal gardens bordered by three new four-storey apartment blocks designed in keeping with the original Art Deco theme.

On the eastern side of the site will be avenues of three and four storey terraced homes. In the northern section will be two and three storey town houses.

Overall there will be 154 one, two and three bedroom flats and 70 four and five bedroom houses priced from £350,000 up to £1.5m. The total will “include affordable housing of varying tenure” say the developers’ PR company.

Memories of the great days at Denham Film Studio will be everywhere - in the streets named after movies, directors and actors and also in a huge glass artwork with names of the famous etched into it.

“This is without doubt the most exciting, glamorous and unique restoration projects we have undertaken,” said Bob Weston, chairman and chief executive of Weston Homes this week.

The development is expected to take between two-five years to complete. Call the developer on 01279 873300 for more details.