which hollywood studio produced the first sound film
Sound film


available to two Hollywood studios, pursuing two very different methods of sound reproduction. The new year would finally see the emergence of sound cinema as a significant commercial medium. In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: Famous Players-Lasky (soon to be part of Paramount), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, First National, and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC). The five studios agreed to collectively select just one provider for sound conversion.
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History of film


grip of major studios in numerous countries: the vast expense of the transition overwhelmed smaller competitors, while the novelty of sound lured vastly larger audiences for those producers that remained. In the case of the U.S., some historians credit sound with saving the Hollywood studio system in the face of the [[Great Depression]] (Parkinson, 1995). Thus began what is now often called "The Golden Age of Hollywood", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the introduction of sound until the late 1940s. The
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Sunset (1988 film)


. This was director Edwards' second collaboration with Willis, whom he directed in "Blind Date" (1987), which had been Willis' first film; "Sunset" was Willis' second. In Hollywood in the late 1920s during the waning days of the industry's transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell) wants to produce an epic Western film about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is cast as the great United States Marshal and the real Earp (James Garner
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Musical film


Disney's biggest hits of all time. The phenomenal box-office performance of "The Sound of Music" gave the major Hollywood studios more confidence to produce lengthy, large-budget musicals. Despite the resounding success of some of these films, Hollywood also produced a large number of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste. The commercially and/or critically unsuccessful films included "Camelot", "Finian's Rainbow", "Hello Dolly!", "Sweet Charity", "
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John McCormick (producer)


John McCormick (August 17, 1893 – May 3, 1961) was an American film producer associated with the Hollywood studio First National Pictures. Between 1923 and 1930, he was married to Colleen Moore, one of the highest-paid and most popular stars of the silent era. McCormick initially was unconvinced by the development of sound films and vetoed Moore's appearing in them. He changed his mind in 1929 and placed Moore in her first talkie, "Smiling Irish Eyes", which was not a great success. Their
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The Sound Factory


The Sound Factory (also known as Sunset Sound Factory) is a recording studio in Los Angeles, California. The Sound Factory was built in the 1960s on Selma Avenue in Hollywood. At the time, it served as the home of Moonglow Records and the Moonglow Recording Studio. In 1969, former RCA recording engineer and Warner/Reprise producer, David Hassinger purchased the Moonglow Records/Studio building and renamed it The Sound Factory. The studio became one of the most popular recording studios in Hollywood, which led its owner to
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Black Waters


Black Waters is a 1929 British film. It was the first British talkie. Herbert Wilcox made the film after visiting Hollywood to see the development of sound. He rented a sound-proofed studio from Charles and Al Christie in Hollywood for five days at £1,000 a day. He obtained a licence from Western Electric to equip the first sound studio in Europe. He borrowed Louis Wolheim from Howard Hughes at $20,000. The film was made in five days. Wilcox says it was the fifth talkie ever made. Wilcox struggled
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B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)


B films might not be advertised at all. The introduction of sound had driven costs higher. In 1930, the beginning of the Golden Age's first full decade, the average U.S. feature film cost $375,000 to produce. A broad range of Hollywood motion pictures occupied the B-movie category: The leading studios made not only clear-cut A and B films, but also movies classifiable as "programmers" (also "in-betweeners" or "intermediates"). These were films that "straddle[d] the
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One Rainy Afternoon


his performance, where Philippe learns that Monique has taken the place of the actress with whom he was to re-enact the kiss. "One Rainy Afternoon" was the first of a small number of United Artists sound films which were produced by its vice-president, Mary Pickford, and the first film for Pickford-Lasky Productions. This film also marked Francis Lederer's first starring role for the studio. United Artists ran an advertisement in "The Hollywood Reporter" with "thank-you's" to executives from
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Cinema of Egypt


first full-length feature. Cairo's film industry became a regional force with the coming of sound. Between 1930 and 1936, various small studios produced at least 44 feature films. In 1936, Studio Misr, financed by industrialist Talaat Harb, emerged as the leading Egyptian equivalent to Hollywood's major studios, a role the company retained for three decades. Historians disagree in determining the beginning of cinema in Egypt. Some say in 1896, when the first film was watched in Egypt, while others date the beginning from 20
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Joan Crawford


Many studios and stars avoided making the transition as long as possible, especially MGM, which was the last of the major studios to switch over to sound. "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" was one of the studio's first all-talking films, and their first attempt to showcase their stars' ability to make the transition from silent to sound. Crawford was among the dozen or more MGM stars included in the movie; she sang the song "Got a Feeling for You" during the film's first act.
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¡Tango!


the script with Carlos de la Pua. It was Argentina Sono Film's first production. The film showed strong Hollywood influence in its cinematic techniques. It was the first optical sound feature film to be produced in Argentina, at Argentina Sono Film's new optical sound studio. The stars included the singer and actress Libertad Lamarque, the stage actor Pepe Arias, the singer Azucena Maizani and the comedian Tita Merello, all well-known theatre or tango performers. The film featured the tango orchestras of Juan de Dios Filiberto, Osvaldo
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New Hollywood


studios, young, therefore able to reach the youth audience they were losing. This group of young filmmakers—actors, writers and directors—dubbed the "New Hollywood" by the press, briefly changed the business from the producer-driven Hollywood system of the past. Todd Berliner has written about the period's unusual narrative practices. The 1970s, Berliner says, marks Hollywood's most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating the storytelling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood.
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Columbia College Hollywood


Tarzan. Students and staff have access to on-campus parking and nearby public transportation and railway hubs. The location is near Hollywood film and television studios including Walt Disney Studios, 20th Century Fox Film Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Picture Studios, and Universal Studios. The Columbia College Hollywood campus features a 96-seat 5.1 channel surround sound theater for screenings, classes, and events, a 35-seat 7.1 channel surround sound screening room, a sound stage, a three-camera HD television stage with a green screen and control room,
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Howard Hawks


again signed a long-term contract with a major studio. He managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career. By 1930, Hollywood was in upheaval over the coming of "talkies" and the careers of many actors and directors were ruined. Hollywood studios were recruiting stage actors and directors that they believed were better suited for sound films. After having worked in the industry for 14 years and directed many financially successful films, Hawks found himself having to prove himself an asset to the studios
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Escape (1930 film)


Escape is a 1930 British crime film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best and Gordon Harker. It was based on a 1926 play of the same title by John Galsworthy, which was adapted again as a film in 1948. It was the first film released by Associated Talking Pictures, a British company with ties to the Hollywood studio RKO, which later relocated and became Ealing Studios. The film was made at Beaconsfield Studios which had been recently equipped for making sound films. The film's sets were
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History of film technology


of Technicolor's near-monopoly on the medium. The last stand of black-and-white films made by or released through the major Hollywood studios came in the mid-1960s, after which the use of color film for all productions was effectively mandatory and exceptions were only rarely and grudgingly made. Initially, there were technical difficulties in synchronizing images with sound. However, there was still significant interest in motion pictures for films to be produced without sound. The era from the 1890s to the late 1920s, is commonly referred to
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Sound film


with the process to an audience of scientists in Berlin. Hungarian engineer Denes Mihaly submitted his sound-on-film Projectofon concept to the Royal Hungarian Patent Court in 1918; the patent award was published four years later. Whether sound was captured on cylinder, disc, or film, none of the available technology was adequate for big-league commercial purposes, and for many years the heads of the major Hollywood film studios saw little benefit in producing sound motion pictures. A number of technological developments contributed to making sound cinema commercially
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Robert Kane (producer)


Robert Kane (1886 – 1957) was an American film producer. He is sometimes credited as Robert T. Kane. In 1930 Paramount Pictures put Kane in charge of the Joinville Studios in Paris where the company made multiple-language versions in various different languages. The move was a response to the introduction of sound film which meant English-language films made in Hollywood were no longer suitable for non-English-speaking markets. Joinville produced hundreds of films in a two-year period, before dubbing became more widespread. In
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Universal Studios Hollywood


chance to buy fresh produce, since then-rural Universal City was still in part a working farm. This original tour was discontinued in around 1930, due to the advent of sound films coming to Universal. Universal Studios Hollywood's back lot has been damaged by fire nine times throughout its history. The first was in 1932 when embers from a nearby brush fire were blown toward the back lot causing four movie sets to be destroyed and resulting in over $100,000 damage. Seventeen years later, in 1949, another brush fire
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Synapse (film)


Synapse is a science fiction thriller directed by music video director Kenlon Clark. The screenplay was written by Adam G. Simon who also penned the original story and screenplay for "Man Down". Simon also stars in the film alongside Sophina Brown, Henry Simmons, Joshua Alba, Charley Boon and Will Rubio. The sound design for the film was done by Emmy Award winning sound designer Michael Archacki and the score was created by Christian Davis. "Synapse" is the first theatrical content produced by Los Angeles Center Studios and Hollywood Locations
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Bebe and Louis Barron


that the tonalities in Forbidden Planet remind them of what their dreams sound like. The producers of the film had originally wanted to hire Harry Partch to do the music score. The Barrons were brought in to do only about twenty minutes of sound effects. After the producers heard the initial sample score, the Barrons were assigned an hour and ten minutes of the rest of the film. The studio wanted to move the couple to Hollywood where most of the film scores were produced at the time. But the couple would not budge
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Monta Bell


the Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens in New York. As sound films came, Bell directed a number of high comedies and low melodramas and later moved to producing films. Bell had a pet schipperke at this time which he taught to do a trick he called "Hollywood." Helen Laidlaw, wife of one of Bell's writers, said, "He would say, 'Come on, do Hollywood,' and the dog would lie down on its back and spread its legs." Bell was married for six
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T. R. Ramanna


Thanjavur Radhakrishnan Ramachandran (T.R.Ramanna) (1923 - 1997) was an Indian film director and producer. Ramanna started his life as a sound recordist in a city studio and then made his way to film direction. He started the production company R.R. Pictures (with the initials of his sister and himself). He produced movies in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, many of which were successful. One of his successful film was "Manapandhal", inspired by the Hollywood classic "Sabrina" (1954), directed by Billy Wilder
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Sound film


convinced of the talkies' universal appeal—until mid-1930, the majority of Hollywood movies were produced in dual versions, silent as well as talking. Though few in the industry predicted it, silent film as a viable commercial medium in the United States would soon be little more than a memory. "Points West", a Hoot Gibson Western released by Universal Pictures in August 1929, was the last purely silent mainstream feature put out by a major Hollywood studio. "The Jazz Singer" had its European sound premiere at the
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Desperate Housewives


and a park. Interior sets were built on sound stages at Universal Studios Hollywood, some of which were duplicated in some form on the Wisteria Lane back lot for filming when conditions required it. Filming for the series ended April 26, 2012. The initial idea for the show's opening sequence was Cherry's. After asking 16 companies to come up with suggestions for how best to realize it, the producers finally hired Hollywood-based yU+co to provide the final version. According to the yU+co's official website, the idea
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Cinema of the United States


to form one of the 20th century's most remarkable growth industries. At motion pictures' height of popularity in the mid-1940s, the studios were cranking out a total of about 400 movies a year, seen by an audience of 90 million Americans per week. Sound also became widely used in Hollywood in the late 1920s. After "The Jazz Singer", the first film with synchronized voices was successfully released as a Vitaphone talkie in 1927, Hollywood film companies would respond to Warner Bros. and begin to use Vitaphone sound — which
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929


The Hollywood Revue of 1929, or simply Hollywood Revue, is an American pre-Code musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of their earliest sound films. Produced by Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg and directed by Charles Reisner, it features nearly all of MGM's stars in a two-hour revue that includes three segments in Technicolor. The masters of ceremonies are Conrad Nagel and Jack Benny. Unlike M-G-M's imposing
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Michael Luciano


been published about Luciano's early career and education. In the era of the Hollywood studio system and the "Big Five" studios, Luciano's credits are for films produced by smaller companies. His first credit is as the editor of "The Luck of Roaring Camp", a 1937 film produced by Monogram Pictures, which was a "Poverty Row" studio. He edited "Gang War" (1940), which was produced by Million Dollar Productions. His last credit before the US entry into World War II was
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William Dieterle


at First National to make German-language dubbed versions of Hollywood films, as the studios were afraid of losing foreign business with the advent of sound films. But when Dieterle, his wife and a group of actors arrived, they found that the films had already been dubbed. They were chosen as actors in German-language versions of four Hollywood films, including Lloyd Bacon's "Moby Dick" (1930), in which Dieterle played Ahab. After the four films were completed, Warner Brothers' Vice President of Production
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Panorama Film Studios


the famed Audio Cyclopedia, who moved from Hollywood to live in Sunset Beach/Lions Bay area just northwest of the studio. Previously Tremaine had worked at the USAF's Lookout Mountain Film Studio and also owned and operated the private film technology school University of Hollywood. Behind the main sound stage/office building was a large "mill" where sets were constructed. Fenced-in large BC Hydro power transformers supplied the considerable power used on the stages. The stages were purpose-designed, sound-proof structures with heavy sound
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Studio system


the historic era of the studio system was over. The period stretching from the introduction of sound to the beginning of the demise of the studio system, 1927–1948, is referred to by some film historians as the Golden Age of Hollywood. The Golden Age is a purely technical distinction and not to be confused with the style in film criticism known as Classical Hollywood cinema, a style of American film which developed from 1917 to 1963 and characterizes it to this day. During the so-called Golden Age, eight companies constituted the
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Shochiku


making films in 1920, about a decade after its main rival Nikkatsu. The company sought to break away from the prevailing pattern of "jidai-geki" and to emulate Hollywood standards. It was the first film studio to abandon the use of female impersonators and brought new ideas, including the star system and the sound stage to Japan. It built its main studio at Kamata, between Tokyo and Yokohama, and hired Henry Kotani, a Japanese who had worked in Hollywood as an actor and cameraman to direct its first film
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Pre-Code Hollywood


250,000 youths traveled the country by hopping trains or hitchhiking in search of better economic circumstances in the early 1930s. Complicating matters for the studios, the advent of sound film in 1927 required an immense expenditure in sound stages, recording booths, cameras, and movie-theater sound systems, not to mention the new-found artistic complications of producing in a radically altered medium. The studios were in a difficult financial position even before the market crash as the sound conversion process and some risky purchases of theater chains had pushed their finances
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Rudi Fehr


"Le Tunnel", which was directed by Curtis Bernhardt. In 1935 he worked on the editing of the Buster Keaton film "The Invader". In 1936, Fehr, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in Germany and moved to United States. He landed a job at the Warner Brothers film studio in Hollywood, where he initially worked to substitute English sound tracks on two films for the original German ones. He soon became an assistant editor to Warren Low. His first Hollywood editing credit was for the film
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Sound film


classical, as well as a four-minute filmed introduction by Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, all with live-recorded sound. These were the first true sound films exhibited by a Hollywood studio. Warner Bros.' "The Better 'Ole", technically similar to "Don Juan", followed in October. Sound-on-film would ultimately win out over sound-on-disc because of a number of fundamental technical advantages: Nonetheless, in the early years, sound-
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Verna Fields


on some minor studio films such as Peter Bogdanovich's first film, "Targets" (1968). For several years in the late 1960s, she was a film instructor at the University of Southern California. Her one major studio film, "El Cid" (1961), led to her only industry recognition in this phase of her career, which was the 1962 Golden Reel award for sound editing. Fields came into prominence as a film editor and industry executive during the 'New Hollywood' era (1968–1982).
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Out of the Shadows (unfinished film)


Out of the Shadows was an unfinished 1931 feature film from A. R. Harwood. He made it after a number of years of working in distribution with the intention of producing Australia's first talking motion picture. The script was by J. Summers, "a Victorian who has had experience in Hollywood." The movie was a "society romance" shot in Melbourne using a sound-on-disc recording system. During filming, Senator John Barnes, then leader of the Senate, paid a visit to the St Kilda Studio where
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Jack L. Warner


studio. While Warner Bros. invested only $500,000 in the film, the studio reaped $3 million in profits. Hollywood's five major studios, which controlled most of the nation's movie theaters, initially attempted to block the growth of "talking pictures". In the face of such organized opposition, Warner Bros. produced 12 "talkies" in 1928 alone. The following year, the newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Warner Bros. for "revolutionizing the industry with sound". Despite Warner Bros.' new
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Four walls (filmmaking)


The four walls (also known as the four wall system) is a film production system whereby a film production company rents a sound stage and associated space but then separately contracts for additional facilities and hires freelance staff. The four walls system became prominent in the 1960s, following the demise of the Hollywood studio system from 1948. Some big studios, like Pinewood Studios in England, became four walls facilities for independent film producers and television companies. These facilities no longer engage in the development or distribution of films. The four walls
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Sound & Vision India


Sound & Vision India is an Indian dubbing studio group in India, with their main studio located in Andheri West Mumbai. They have dubbed for so many live action and animated theatrical or television films, series and documentaries. Sound & Vision India was founded in 1992 by Leela Roy Ghosh and her daughter Mona Ghosh Shetty. They have been dubbing for foreign media for many years such as for hundreds of Hollywood movies and thousands of TV shows for leading multinational TV channels and movie producers worldwide. Sound & Vision India mainly adapts foreign
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Kameradschaft


previous film, "Westfront 1918", his first talkie, Pabst did not utilize the soundproof booths which Hollywood studios used to mask the sound of the camera from the microphone, instead employing a sound proof case called a "blimp", which gave the freedom to move the camera around. Film critic Daniel Curran calls the film "A heartfelt plea for peace and internationalism." While calling the narrative over-sentimental, Curran wrote, "Pabst's plea for a peaceful future is both noble and honest, his direction
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The Big House (1930 film)


. In the early days of sound films, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce "Foreign Language Versions" of their films using the same sets, costumes and so on. While many of these versions no longer exist, the French, Spanish and German-language versions of "The Big House" survive, which are entitled "Révolte dans la prison" and "Menschen hinter Gittern". The French and Spanish versions are available with the original in a triple feature set from the Warner Archives. Mordaunt Hall of
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Speed Racer (film)


concluded on August 25, 2007. In 2007, the Wachowskis purchased the rights to the sound effects and theme song of the television series for use in the film. The film's soundtrack was composed by Michael Giacchino, performed by Hollywood Studio Symphony and released by Varèse Sarabande. It was used along with orchestral score; Warner Bros. added an updated version of the "Go, Speed Racer, Go" theme song, which plays during the end credits, and was produced by Ali Dee Theodore and Jason Gleed, and performed
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Classical Hollywood cinema


Hollywood style would further develop after the transition to sound-film production. The primary changes in American film-making came from the film industry itself, with the height of the studio system. This mode of production, with its reigning star system bankrolled by several key studios, had preceded sound by several years. By mid-1920, most of the prominent American directors and actors, who had worked independently since the early 10s, would have to become a part of the new studio system to continue to work. The beginning of
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Hal Roach


. By 1951, the studio was producing 1,500 hours of television programs a year, nearly three times Hollywood's annual output of feature movies. Recognizing the value of his film library, the visionary Roach began in 1943 licensing revivals of his sound-era productions for theatrical and home-movie distribution. Roach's films were also early arrivals on television. His Laurel and Hardy comedies were a smashing success in television syndication, as were the "Our Gang" comedies originally produced from 1927-1938, for which in 1949 Roach
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Hollywood Pictures


Hollywood Pictures Corporation was an American film production label of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Similar to Disney's Touchstone Pictures and former Miramax and Dimension film labels, it produced films for a more mature adult audience with darker themes than Walt Disney Pictures. While then-Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in later years its operations had been scaled back and its management was merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio. The
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Culture of Germany


, who became a German citizen in 1926 and whose career flourished in the pre-war German film industry, is said to have been a major influence on Hollywood cinema. His silent movie Metropolis (1927) is referred to as the birth of modern Science Fiction movies. Founded in 1912, the Babelsberg Film Studio is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. In 1930, Josef von Sternberg directed "The Blue Angel", which was the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress
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Steamboat Willie


Singer", had committed himself to producing one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons. "Steamboat Willie" is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound, as well as the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons such as Inkwell Studios' "Song Car-Tunes" (1924–1927) and Van Beuren Studios' "Dinner Time" (1928). Disney understood from early on that synchronized sound was the future of film. "Steamboat Willie"
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Irwin Allen


him being offered his own gossip column, "Hollywood Merry-Go-Round", which was syndicated to 73 newspapers. Allen produced his first TV program, a celebrity panel show also called "Hollywood Merry-Go-Round" with announcer Steve Allen (no relation), before moving into film production. Allen became involved in film production at a time when power was beginning to shift from studios to talent agencies. He put together packages consisting of directors, actors and script, and sold them to film studios.
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Clapham Studios


The Clapham Studios were a British film studios of the silent and early sound eras, located in Clapham in London. The studios were built at Cranmer Court under some railway arches, opening in 1913. Several different companies used the studios during their first decade including Holmfirth Films. In 1927 it was used for one of the first British sound films when a short film was made using the DeForest Phonofilm sound system. By the late 1920s usage of the studio had been abandoned, as producers moved to larger and more modern studios.
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Milton H. Bren


Milton H. Bren (June 14, 1904 – December 14, 1979) was a Hollywood movie producer and real estate developer. Bren was born in Los Angeles in 1904 to a Jewish family, the son of Sadie (née Simon) and Harry Bren. He first worked as a talent agent. In 1937, he accepted a job at Hal Roach Studios as an associate producer where he produced the film "Topper", the studio's first feature film, which was wildly successful. In 1938, he was elevated to
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What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album)


What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by American soul singer, songwriter, and producer Marvin Gaye. It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Records-subsidiary label Tamla. Gaye recorded the album between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, and United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California. It was his first album to credit him as a producer and to credit Motown's in-house studio band, the session musicians known
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Pardon Us


the boys in gray beards are reminiscing. "Pardon Us" was released in the UK under the title "Jailbirds". In the early days of sound films, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce "Foreign Language Versions" of their films using the same sets, costumes and so forth. While many of these versions no longer exist, the Spanish-language version of "Pardon Us", which is entitled "De Bote en Bote", is an exception. Besides the Spanish version, an Italian version
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Doris (album)


was produced over the course of about four or five months, and "Chum" was created in the first three days. The song was produced using Logic Pro, and the beat was the quickest and rawest made on the album. The song was recorded by Julian Prindle at Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. Jaycen Joshua mixed the track at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, and it was later mastered by Dave Kutch at the Mastering Palace in New York City. Taiwo Hassan wrote the chorus for "Chum"
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Movies Now


Movies Now is an Indian high-definition television channel featuring Hollywood films. It was launched on 19 December 2010 with a picture quality of 1080i and 5.1 surround sound. The channel, owned by The Times Group. In June 2016 Times Network decided to launch another channel called Movies Now 2,which later renamed as MNX. In July 2017 Movies Now 2 was rechristened into MNX channel in Hollywood.It has exclusive content licensing from films produced or distributed by MGM and has content licensing from 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios Walt Disney Studios
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Alexander Korda


technology following the success of the first Sound film "The Jazz Singer" (1927). Korda's next film "The Squall" (1929), with a young Myrna Loy, was his first "talkie" and featured a Hungarian setting. Although, like many other directors, Korda had misgivings about the new technology, he quickly adapted to making sound films. Korda's marriage was strained in Hollywood. The arrival of sound films wrecked his wife's career as her heavy accent made her unemployable by American studios for
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Chester Schaeffer


Chester Schaeffer (September 9, 1902 – January 5, 1992) was an American film and television editor with about thirty documentary and feature film credits, often for B movies. Schaeffer's first feature film editing credit was for "The Canterville Ghost" (directed by Jules Dassin-1944). The film was produced by MGM Studios in Hollywood. In the era of the Hollywood studio system, film editors typically served an apprenticeship at the studio of about ten years as assistant editors before promotion to editor, and Schaeffer had been an
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Hollywood on the Tiber


stream of blockbusters produced in Italy by Hollywood studios, which reached its height with 20th Century Fox's "Cleopatra" in 1963. The phrase "Hollywood on Tiber", a reference to the river that runs through Rome, was coined in 1950 by "Time Magazine" during the making of "Quo Vadis". Following World War II, Hollywood studios increasingly shifted production abroad both to take advantage of lower costs and to use frozen funds (profits from American films which foreign governments barred from export). These films,
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Great Expectations (1934 film)


Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios and directed by Stuart Walker. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as Estella and Florence Reed as Miss Havisham. Critics consider this 1934 version far inferior to the classic 1946 version, made in England and directed by David Lean. A notable link between the two movies is that Francis L. Sullivan played the role
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All Dogs Go to Heaven


, stating he liked how "provocative" it sounded, and how people reacted to the title alone. During the production of their previous feature film, Sullivan Bluth Studios had moved from Van Nuys, California, to a state-of-the-art studio facility in Dublin, Ireland, and the film was their first to begin production wholly at the Irish studio. It was also their first to be funded from sources outside of Hollywood, the previous two feature films, "An American Tail" and "The Land
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Nova Studios


Masters attempted to keep Nova Studios afloat by finally producing sound films. Masters had refused to make films with synchronous sound until 1983—long after most other gay pornographic studios had not only begun using dialogue synched to the actor's lip movements but also had moved from film to video. Masters' friend, William Higgins, had been recording sound for his films (but not using it) since 1978, and Falcon Studios released their first sound film in 1979. "I hated sound at this time. Because of my experience with "
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Independent film


in part to take over the independent film industry and at the same time start independent studios of their own. The following are all indie studios owned by conglomerate Hollywood: By the early 2000s, Hollywood was producing three different classes of films: 1) big-budget blockbusters, 2) art films, specialty films and niche-market films produced by the conglomerate-owned indies and 3) genre and specialty films coming from true indie studios and producers. The third category comprised over half the features released in the United States
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Famous Players Film Company


names including Marguerite Clark, Hazel Dawn, and H. B. Warner. The company also featured cinema's biggest star of the era, Mary Pickford, and presented theater idol John Barrymore in his first two films. The company produced both short and feature-length productions. In 1915 the company established Famous Players Fiction Studios at 5300 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. The new studio's first film starred Mary Pickford. The studio later became Clune Studio, then California Studio, then Gross-Krasne, followed by Producers Studios Inc., and
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Carl Froelich


1929 he shared ownership of a production company. In 1929 Froelich made the first German sound film, "Die Nacht gehört uns" ("The Night Belongs To Us"). In 1930 he took over two glasshouses in Berlin-Tempelhof, which had been used as studios in the days of silent film, and had them converted to sound film studios. Here he produced many films, including Rolf Hansen's short film "Das Schönheitsfleckchen" (1936) ("The Beauty Spot"), the first German drama
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Pathé


Pathé News, which had not been produced since 1927. Natan also invested heavily into research and development to expand Pathe's film business. In 1929, he pushed Pathé into sound film. In September, the studio produced its first sound feature film, and its first sound newsreel a month later. Natan also launched two new cinema-related magazines, "Pathé-Revue" and "Actualités Féminines," to help market Pathé's films and build consumer demand for cinema. Under Natan, Pathé also funded the research of
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Humphrey Pearson


was one of the few films Hollywood produced which was a silent film with sound sequences. Pearson's play, "Shoestring", would serve as the basis for Robert Lord's screenplay "On With the Show!", which in 1929 became the first color sound film. In the next two years Pearson would pen another seven screenplays, including "Bride of the Regiment", starring Vivienne Segal and Allan Prior, and featuring Walter Pidgeon and Myrna Loy; Michael Curtiz' "Bright Lights" (1930); "
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Diddy Wah Diddy


of the track, produced by David Gates (later the leader of Bread), in January 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders studio in Hollywood, California. The song was the band's first single, released on the A&M label in March of that year. Some copies of the single incorrectly credit the songwriter as "A. Christensen". The song soon gained interest and became a regional hit, with the band promoting it in May, on the TV show "Where the Action Is", in a mimed segment filmed on
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Flashpoint Chicago


Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). Courses at Columbia College Hollywood's Flashpoint Chicago campus are taught by creative professionals who work as filmmakers, producers, directors, editors, writers, artists, sound engineers, game designers, media makers, cinematographers, and scholars. Collectively, the faculty of Columbia College Hollywood's Los Angeles main campus and Flashpoint Chicago campus has contributed to dozens of studio and independent feature films and hundreds of hours of television programming. Their work has been seen in film festivals worldwide. Faculty are active
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Marneen Fields


'm Gonna Be a Hollywood Stuntman" that was nominated for Best Children's/Young Adult Film from the International Action on Film Festival 2017. "I'm Gonna Be a Hollywood Stuntman" with American Idol contestant, Christian Etter Johnson on lead vocals and Marneen on female vocals hit the NUMBER ONE spot on the Soundclick Music Internet Charts twice in the Country-Pop and Country categories beating out 50,000 other songs. The song was produced by Grammy winner Tom Weir of Studio City Sound. On August 5, 2018, Marneen
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Julius Hagen


George A. Cooper and Bernard Vorhaus made several films at Twickenham. Leslie S. Hiscott was one of the most prolific directors, and also played a part in production and the overall running of the studio. Hagen steadily built his business up during the early years of sound. His major breakthrough as a producer came in 1929 when he secured a contract with one of the Hollywood Majors, Warner Brothers, to provide them with a supply of British 'quota quickie' films which they needed in order to meet the requirements of the Cinematograph
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David O. Selznick filmography


producing films himself, starting with two documentary shorts and then a minor feature, "Roulette" (1924). Moving to Hollywood in 1926, Selznick became employed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he produced two films before switching to Paramount in early 1928. After helping to guide Paramount into the sound era, Selznick moved to RKO Radio in 1931 where he served as the studio's executive producer. During his time at RKO he oversaw the production of "King Kong" (1933) and helped
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Hollywood Pictures


and coming executives and double its feature film output to fill the gap left by the contraction in the industry which includes closure of MGM/UA's United Artists and financial problems at Lorimar-Telepictures and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. With Touchstone aligned with Hollywood, the two Disney Studio production divisions would share the same marketing and distribution staffs. Hollywood was expected to be producing 12 films a year by 1991 and to share funding from the Silver Screen Partners IV. The company's first release was "Arachnophobia" in 1990. On
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Hollywood


in October 1911. Four major film companies – Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia – had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios. In the 1920s, Hollywood was the fifth-largest industry in the nation. By the 1930s, Hollywood studios became fully vertically integrated, as production, distribution and exhibition was controlled by these companies, enabling Hollywood to produce 600 films per year. Hollywood became known as "Tinseltown" and the "dream factory" because of the glittering image of the
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Berberian Sound Studio


Berberian Sound Studio is a 2012 British horror film. It is the second feature film by British director and screenwriter Peter Strickland. The film, which stars Toby Jones, is set in a 1970s Italian horror film studio. British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives at the Berberian film studio in Italy to work on what he believes is a film about horses. During a surreal meeting with Francesco, the film's producer, Gilderoy is shocked to find the film is actually an Italian giallo film, "The Equestrian Vortex
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Central Studios


Uppilipalayam near Singanallur township, Trichy Road which is today a part of Coimbatore city. The Studio had almost all modern facilities required for a Movie studio along with Sound and film editing labs and technical workshops. The sound engineers and cameramen were all Germans during the 30s and most of the Make-Up team were from Mumbai. The studio also had a music department headed by S. M. Subbaiah Naidu. The studio also boasted the BNC Mitchell Camera, then a Hollywood standard, which cost a whopping Rs 500,000 in the 1930s and
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Killer's Kiss


invest this time. Most of the initial budget was covered by Morris Bousel, a Bronx pharmacist who was rewarded with a co-producer credit. Kubrick began to shoot the film with sound recorded on location, as was common practice in Hollywood. However, frustrated by the intrusion of the microphone into his lighting scheme, Kubrick fired his sound-man and decided to post-dub the entire film as he had with his first film. The film is notable for its location shots in the old Penn Station, which was
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Cinema Center Films


Cinema Center Films (CCF) was the theatrical film production company of the CBS Television Network from 1967 to 1972. Its films were distributed by National General Pictures. The production unit was located at the Republic Pictures lot, Hollywood and produced 30 films. CBS chairman William S. Paley and Frank Stanton founded the network's first film division, Cinema Center Films, in 1967 with Gordon T. Stulberg as its first chief. In February 1967 CBS had bought the studios of Republic Pictures (which would be renamed CBS Studio Center) for
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Dixie Dugan


starring Alice White as Dixie Dugan and both produced by Warner Bros.: "Show Girl" (1928) and "Show Girl in Hollywood" (1930). The first film featured music and sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, while the second film was a talkie using the early Western Electric sound-on-film system. In 1943, Twentieth Century Fox produced another film titled "Dixie Dugan" featuring Lois Andrews as the title character. By this time, Dixie had long since left behind
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Finally (Fergie song)


Sinatra and featured several male models from Wilhelmina Models as part of the shoot. "Finally" was written by John Stephens (John Legend), Stacy Ferguson (Fergie) and Stefanie Ridel. The song was produced by John Legend and Ron Fair. Ridel and Fair produced Fergie's vocals, which were recorded at Chung King Recording Studios in New York City and Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood. The strings were arranged and conducted by Fair and recorded by Allen Sides at Signet Sound in West Hollywood, California. Anatoly Rosinsky,
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Film studio


. Some movies were shot on the roofs of buildings in Downtown Los Angeles. Early movie producers also relocated to Southern California to escape Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company, which controlled almost all the patents relevant to movie production at the time. The first movie studio in the Hollywood area was Nestor Studios, opened in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley. In the same year, another 15 independents settled in Hollywood. Other production companies eventually settled in the Los Angeles area in places such as Culver City, Burbank, and
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Walton Studios


catalogue of 2,000 films were destroyed, a disaster in which 80% of British films made between 1900 and 1929 were lost. In 1926, the Studio was purchased by Archibald Nettlefold, and renamed as "Nettlefold Studios", and began producing comedy silent films, until it was upgraded to sound production with the advent of sound film in the early 1930s. The 1930s saw the Studio mainly producing what were known in the industry as "Quota Quickies" as part of the Government's "Screen Quotas" programme to try to
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Drácula (1931 Spanish-language film)


Drácula is a 1931 American Spanish-language Pre-Code horror film directed by George Melford. It is an adaptation of the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker and the 1924 stage play. It was filmed at night on the same sets that were being used during the day for the 1931 English-language film of the same title. In the early days of sound film, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce foreign-language versions of their films (usually in Spanish, but also in French, Italian and German)
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Action in the North Atlantic


and was replaced by Raymond Massey. Raft was put into "Background to Danger" and was replaced by Humphrey Bogart. Because war restrictions did not permit filming at sea, the film was shot entirely on Warner Brothers studio sound stages and back lots. According to "Bill Collins Presents the Golden Years of Hollywood", the ships sets were built in halves on two sound stages, with the tanker sinking sequence shot first on the studio's "Stage Nine". Director Lloyd Bacon's contract with Warner Brothers expired during production
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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music


, the title of the album was conceived by producer Sid Feller and ABC-Paramount's executives and management people. The recording sessions for the album took place at three sessions in mid-February 1962. The first two sessions were set on February 5 and 7 at Capitol Studios in New York, New York, at which one half of the album was recorded and produced. The other half was recorded on February 15 of that same year at United Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. Instead of drawing what he should record
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Independent film


and usually cost between $5 and $10 million to produce. Hollywood was producing these three different classes of feature films by means of three different types of producers. The superior products were the large, budget blockbusters and high-cost star vehicles marketed by the six major studio producer-distributors. Budgets on the major studios' pictures averaged $100 million, with approximately one-third of it spent on marketing because of the large release campaigns. Another class of Hollywood feature film included art films, specialty films, and
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The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra


which was co-written and directed by Florey. Like in the original film, the remake's central character is an actor seeking a job in Hollywood, who is subjected to the cruelties of the film industry and the whims of studio executives and film producers. "Hollywood Boulevard" also includes some visual similarities to the original film, such as unusual angles to reflect the disordered nature of Hollywood. However, the remake includes several subplots that lengthen the running time of the film and make it more attractive to mass audiences,
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List of RKO Pictures films


generate profits greater than $100,000, the first time this happened in the history of RKO, and this resulted in the first net loss for the studio ($5.8M) in over a decade. Hope was raised when Hughes hired what many considered the top producer-writer team in Hollywood, Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, who were contracted to produce 60 films over the next five years. The few highlights were all films which were not produced by RKO: "The Outlaw" (Jane Russell's debut — and
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F. W. Murnau


first films to feature original film scores. Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made "" (1927), a movie often cited by scholars as one of the greatest of all time. Released in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system (music and sound effects only), "Sunrise" was not a financial success, but received several Oscars at the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. In winning the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production it shared what is
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Cliff Reid


film industry at the very beginning of the sound era, producing and directing film shorts. His first film was "The Suppressed Crime", a 1930 mystery short, which was produced by Reid's own company, George Clifford Reid Productions. During 1930 and 1931 Reid's company would produce 19 film shorts, which Reid produced and directed. He even wrote one of the shorts, 1931's "The Bank Swindle". Reid began working for RKO in 1933; his first assignment for the studio was as the associate producer
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Sound film


2019), and there were more than 20,000 movie theaters in the United States. By 1930, only half of the theaters had been wired for sound. Initially, all ERPI-wired theaters were made Vitaphone-compatible; most were equipped to project Movietone reels as well. However, even with access to both technologies, most of the Hollywood companies remained slow to produce talking features of their own. No studio besides Warner Bros. released even a part-talking feature until the low-budget-oriented Film Booking Offices of
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Tamil cinema


the night. The scene changed in 1934 when Madras got its first sound studio. By this time, all the cinema houses in Madras had been wired for sound. Narayanan, who had been active during the silent era, founded Srinivasa Cinetone in which his wife worked as the sound recordist. "Srinivasa Kalyanam" (1934), directed by Narayanan, was the first sound film (talkie) produced in Madras. The second sound studio to come up in Madras was Vel Pictures, started by M. D. Rajan on Eldams
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Calder Willingham


York's Actors Studio, where it was an off-Broadway success featuring a young James Dean and introducing actor George Peppard. Sam Spiegel, one of Hollywood's top producers, commissioned Willingham to adapt the novel to film, his first, retitled "The Strange One" (1957) for Columbia Pictures, which advertised it as "the first picture filmed entirely by a cast and technicians from the Actors Studio". Willingham followed it with the first in a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels about an aspiring writer Dick Davenport
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Elstree Calling


Elstree Calling is a 1930 British film directed by Adrian Brunel and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as "Paramount on Parade" (1930) and "The Hollywood Revue of 1929". The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast. The film consists of
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New Hollywood


block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios) and the advent of television, both of which severely weakened the traditional studio system, Hollywood studios initially used spectacle to retain profitability. Technicolor developed a far more widespread use, while widescreen processes and technical improvements, such as CinemaScope, stereo sound and others, such as 3-D, were invented in order to retain the dwindling audience and compete with television. However, these were generally unsuccessful in increasing profits. By 1957 "Life" magazine called the 1950s "the horrible
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Benedict Bogeaus


Belgium, but had to flee on the advent of World War Two. Bogeaus moved to Hollywood in 1940 and went into partnership with Herbert Huston making a portable developing machine. The advent of World War Two saw this become a huge success. When AT&T's Western Electric unit that manufactured sound equipment for film was forced by an antitrust action to divest itself of the General Service Studio complex, Bogeaus outbid producer Edward Small to acquire the studio. He allowed the United States Government to use his complex for film work and leased it
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Chum (song)


the course of about four or five months, and "Chum" was created on its first three days of making the LP. The song was produced using Logic Pro, and the beat was the quickest and rawest made on the album. The song was recorded by Julian Prindle at Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. Jaycen Joshua mixed the track at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, and it was later mastered by Dave Kutch at the Mastering Palace in New York City. Taiwo Hassan wrote the chorus for "Chum
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New Hollywood


New Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the "American New Wave", or "The Hollywood Renaissance", refers to a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in the United States. They influenced the types of films produced, their production and marketing, and the way major studios approached film-making. In New Hollywood films, the film director, rather than the studio, took on a key authorial role. The definition of New
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Herbert Richers


average of 150 hours of dubbed movies per month, representing 70% of the films run in Brazilian theaters. It also has the largest dubbing studios in Latin America occupying more than 10 thousand square meters. Herbert Richers was a film producer of former productions of Atlantis in the 1950s. Aware of the Hollywood studios, he was connected to Walt Disney Studios which educated him in dubbing. Bringing the knowledge gained there back to Brazil, he applied it to the movies and TV productions in Brazil. He thus dubbed many Hollywood films
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Roaring Twenties


), the first all-talking full-length feature film. The animated short film "Dinner Time" (1928) by the Van Beuren Studios was among the first animated sound films. It was followed a few months later by the animated short film "Steamboat Willie" (1928), the first sound film by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was the first commercially successful animated short film and introduced the character Mickey Mouse."Steamboat Willie" was the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack,
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