 Hinds came up with the idea of hiring country houses and shooting films in the rooms and grounds of the locations, which saved the cost of kitting out a full studio.The company acquired Down Place, renaming it Bray Studios, and was based there until 1966.Under the pseudonym John Elder he was a prolific screenwriter and from the mid-1960s he concentrated on this activity, though he produced the TV series "Journey to the Unknown" for LWT (1968–69) and "The Lost Continent" (1968).