Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London. Ealing Studios is the oldest continuously working film studio in the world, and was built for the use of sound in early British films. It is best known for a series of classic films produced in the post-WWII years including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and The Ladykillers (1955).