| 词条 | Snow Business (company) |
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| name = Snow Business International Ltd | logo = Snow Business logo.jpg | caption = Logo | type = Public limited company | traded_as = | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = {{Start date|1982}} | founder = Darcey Crownshaw | defunct = | location_city = | location_country = | location = Stroud, Gloucestershire, England | locations = 25 | area_served = Worldwide | products = Artificial snow and winter effects for TV & Film, Visual Merchandising & Events | services = | homepage = {{URL|www.snowbusiness.com}} }}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] References1. ^{{cite news|title=Snowman's fake flakes a real winner|last=Miles|first=Lucy|work=Sunday Mercury|location=Birmingham|date=16 April 2000|page=15}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=No business like snow business|work=London Evening Standard|location=London|date=28 September 2001|page=27}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=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.|work=Gloucestershire Echo|location=Cheltenham|date=21 August 2010|page=6}} 4. ^1 {{cite news|title=Someone's got to do it|last=Crewe|first=Candida|work=The Times|location=London|date=9 December 2000}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=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|work=The Independent|location=London|date=22 December 2001|last=Sweet|first=Matthew|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5215923.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131227220833/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5215923.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=27 December 2013|accessdate=27 December 2013}} {{Subscription required|via=HighBeam Research}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Movies pay millions for the right sort of snow|first=Simon|last=de Bruxelles|work=The Times|location=London|date=18 May 1999|page=15}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=There's Snow Business Like|work=Western Mail|location=Cardiff|date=30 December 2002|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-95918459|accessdate=27 December 2013}} {{Subscription required|via=Questia Online Library}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Who Made That Artificial Snow?|first1=Hilary|last1=Greenbaum|first2=Dana|last2=Rubinstein|date=17 February 2012|work=The New York Times|location=New York|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/who-made-that-artificial-snow.html|accessdate=28 December 2013}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Movie world experts make the first snowman of the season out of real snow|work=Western Daily Press|location=Bristol|date=19 October 2013|page=10}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=ICE bit of business|last=Varma|first=Anuji|work=Sunday Mercury|location=Birmingham|date=10 January 2010|page=4}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=There's no business like Snow Business|date=22 December 2011|first=Caroline|last=Elliott|work=Engineering & Technology|location=London|url=http://eandt.theiet.org/explore/students/2011/snow-business.cfm|accessdate=28 December 2013}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Let it snow...|first=Maria|last=Burke|date=20 December 2011|work=Society of Chemical Industry|url=http://www.soci.org/Chemistry-and-Industry/CnI-Data/2011/24/Let|accessdate=28 December 2013}} 13. ^{{cite web|title=Largest area covered by artificial snowfall|work=Guinness World Records|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-5000/largest-area-covered-by-artificial-snowfall/|accessdate=28 December 2013}} Further reading
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