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In 1940, Jean Hersholt, then president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, found 48 acres (19 ha) of walnut and orange groves in the southwest end of the San Fernando Valley which were selling for US$850 an acre ($0.21/m 2) ($40,800). The fund's board purchased the parcel that same year to build the Motion Picture Country House.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to create SAG-AFTRA.
The studio was founded in July 1915 by Harry and Roy Aitken, two brothers from the Wisconsin farmlands who pioneered the studio system of Hollywood's Golden Age.Harry was also D. W. Griffith's partner at Reliance-Majestic Studios; both parted with the Mutual Film Corporation in the wake of The Birth of a Nation 's unexpected success that year. [1]
The Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE Local 700) has warned members that as contributions to the industry’s pension and health plan drop, the union will no longer offer free benefit extensions ...
Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American film studio corporation that originally operated from 1935 to 1967, based in Los Angeles, California. It had production and distribution facilities in Studio City , as well as a movie ranch in Encino .
Founded in 1912, the facility is currently owned by Sony Pictures and houses the division's film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, and Screen Gems. The complex was the original studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1986 and Lorimar-Telepictures from 1986 to 1988.
Local 52 Motion Picture Studio Mechanics: Local 161 Script Supervisors: Local 306 I.A.T.S.E. Local 476 Motion Picture Studio Mechanics (Chicago) Local 600 Camera Persons: Local 645 I.A.T.S.E. Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild: Local 702 Lab Workers: Local 751 Ticket Sellers and Treasurers Local 764 Theatrical Wardrobe Union: Local 798 ...
The studio is presently headquartered at the Irving Thalberg Building on the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (currently known as the Sony Pictures Studios) lot in Culver City, California since 1990. Columbia Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), under Sony Pictures Entertainment, [6] and is currently one of six live-action ...