Company:Snow Business
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| Type | Public limited company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Darcey Crownshaw |
| Headquarters | Stroud, Gloucestershire, England |
Number of locations | 25 |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Artificial snow and winter effects for TV & Film, Visual Merchandising & Events |
| Website | www |
Snow Business is a provider of artificial snow for various entertainment industries.[1][2][3] The company was founded by Darcey Crownshaw in 1982.[4] Crownshaw was working in the paper industry when a production unit filming The Last Days of Pompeii for ABC-TV placed an order with his employers for three quarters of a ton of shredded grey cellulose paper to use as artificial volcanic ash.[5] The firm would not deliver less than 20 tons so Crownshaw fulfilled the order himself using the padding from Jiffy bags.[6] Crownshaw later supplied the same production unit with paper snow, and spotting a gap in the market established Snow Business.[4]
The company produces over 160 different types of artificial snow as well as frost, ice, snowballs, snowmen, icicles, igloos and icebergs.[7][8] Film credits include Band of Brothers, Die Another Day, The Day After Tomorrow, the Harry Potter series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Golden Compass.[9][10]
On 23 November 2006 Snow Business International set a Guinness World Record for the largest area covered with continuously falling artificial snow, covering the New Bond Street, Bond Street and Old Bond Street areas of London simultaneously.[11][12] The area measured 12,462.78 m2 (134,148 ft2).[13]
References
- ↑ Miles, Lucy (16 April 2000). "Snowman's fake flakes a real winner". Sunday Mercury (Birmingham): p. 15.
- ↑ "No business like snow business". London Evening Standard (London): p. 27. 28 September 2001.
- ↑ "How Darcey's idea has just snowballed: Everyone loves that first magical snowfall – so imagine earning your living from creating winter wonderlands for film and television.". Gloucestershire Echo (Cheltenham): p. 6. 21 August 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Crewe, Candida (9 December 2000). "Someone's got to do it". The Times (London).
- ↑ Sweet, Matthew (22 December 2001). "THE SNOWMAN: Want to Turn Oxfordshire into a Winter Wonderland or Carpet St Pancras in Virgin Powder? Call Dave Crownshaw, the Movie Magician Who Makes It Snow All Year Round". The Independent (London). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5215923.html. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ↑ de Bruxelles, Simon (18 May 1999). "Movies pay millions for the right sort of snow". The Times (London): p. 15.
- ↑ "There's Snow Business Like". Western Mail (Cardiff). 30 December 2002. https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-95918459.[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ Greenbaum, Hilary; Rubinstein, Dana (17 February 2012). "Who Made That Artificial Snow?". The New York Times (New York). https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/who-made-that-artificial-snow.html. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
- ↑ "Movie world experts make the first snowman of the season out of real snow". Western Daily Press (Bristol): p. 10. 19 October 2013.
- ↑ Varma, Anuji (10 January 2010). "ICE bit of business". Sunday Mercury (Birmingham): p. 4.
- ↑ Elliott, Caroline (22 December 2011). "There's no business like Snow Business". Engineering & Technology (London). http://eandt.theiet.org/explore/students/2011/snow-business.cfm. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
- ↑ Burke, Maria (20 December 2011). "Let it snow...". Society of Chemical Industry. http://www.soci.org/Chemistry-and-Industry/CnI-Data/2011/24/Let. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
- ↑ "Largest area covered by artificial snowfall". Guinness World Records. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-5000/largest-area-covered-by-artificial-snowfall/. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
Further reading
- "There's no business like Snow Business". BBC. November 2002. Article about the company's work on James Bond movie Die Another Day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/films/snowbusiness.shtml.
- "No business like Snow Business". BBC. April 2014. Interview with Darcey Crownshaw. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/volvo-business/10337106/snow-business-profile.html.
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