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The Culver Studios was founded in 1918 by silent movie actor, director, and producer Thomas H. Ince after he acquired land from real estate developer Harry Culver.The Thomas H. Ince Studio, as it was originally known, was designed and constructed by the architectural firm of Meyer & Holler. [6]
RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California.Best known as Forty Acres and "the back forty," [1] it was also called "Desilu Culver," [2] the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at the time.
Ince's aspirations soon led him to leave the narrow confines of Edendale and find a location that would give him greater scope and variety. He settled upon a 460-acre (1.9 km 2) tract of land called Bison Ranch located at Sunset Blvd. and Pacific Coast Highway in the Santa Monica Mountains, (the present-day location of the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine) which he rented by the day. [12]
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The deal was secured on January 29, 1931, and the studio, with its contract players, well-regarded newsreel operation, and DeMille's old Culver City studio and backlot, became the semiautonomous RKO Pathé Pictures Inc. [26] The acquisition, though a defensible investment in the long term for Pathé's physical facilities, was yet another major ...
Part of Millbank's investment went to purchase the former Thomas H. Ince Culver Studios, the property whose main building is a replica of Mount Vernon. In March 1927, the small Pathé Exchange studio and Producers Distributing Corporation merged under the control of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) chain of theaters.
The Sony Pictures Studios is an American television and film studio complex located in Culver City, California at 10202 West Washington Boulevard and bounded by Culver Boulevard (south), Washington Boulevard (north), Overland Avenue (west) and Madison Avenue (east).
Selznick International Pictures was founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor Jock Whitney after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of the RKO Pictures lot in Culver City, California.