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Other major film studios of the 20th century included: RKO Pictures (RKO) (1929–1959): one of the Big Five studios (originally incorporated as RKO Radio Pictures), bought by Howard Hughes in 1948, was mismanaged and dismantled and was largely defunct by the 1957 studio lot sale; [21] revived several times as an independent studio, with most recent film releases in 2012 and 2015.
The Fox Broadcasting Company is based in the Century City district of Los Angeles inside the 20th Century Studios studio lot, while the Fox Television Center is in West Los Angeles. CBS owns CBS Studio Center in Studio City and previously owned Television City in the Fairfax District , although the network still maintains operations on that lot.
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. [1] Paramount Pictures' first logo, with 24 stars, based on a design by its co-founder William Wadsworth Hodkinson, used from 1914 to 1969. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company.
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Los Angeles Film School Established in 1999, L.A. Film School offers bachelor and associate degrees in entertainment fields, both on its Hollywood campus and through online programs.
Originally known as the Warner Bros. Theatre or Warner Hollywood Theatre, the latter used to avoid confusion with another Warner Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, [4] this building was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, an architect renowned for his theater designs, having previously designed the Palace, Orpheum, El Capitan, and more.
The Nestor Film Company was founded in 1909 as the West Coast production unit of the Centaur Film Company located in Bayonne, New Jersey, owned and operated by David Horsley and his brother, William Horsley. [2] On October 27, 1911, [1] [3] Nestor opened the first movie studio actually located in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.