194:Movie 4

The founder of _______was Carl Laemmle, a German Jewish immigrant from Laupheim who settled in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he managed a clothing store.On a 1905 buying trip to Chicago, Illinois, he was struck by the popularity of nickelodeons.One story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the take for the day.Within weeks of his Chicago trip, he gave up dry goods to buy the first of several nickelodeons.It was believed that the productions were meant to be used for another company but they turned it down.Soon Laemmle and other disgruntled Nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures.In June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe and Julius Stern.That company quickly evolved into the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP).Laemmle broke with Edison's custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers.By naming the movie stars, he was able to attract many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system.On June 8, 1912, Laemmle merged IMP with eight smaller companies to form the _______Film Manufacturing Company—the first appearance of the word "____" in the organization's name.Eventually all would be bought out by Laemmle.The new _______studio was a horizontally integrated company, with both movie production and distribution capacity.The company was incorporated as _______Pictures Company, Inc. in 1925.Its first logo was an Earth with a Saturn-like ring and the text in a bold Kentucky font.Studio management now became the third facet of _______'s operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization.Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists.Promoted to studio chief, Thalberg was giving _______'s product a touch of class, something it seldom had during the silent era.In 1926, _______opened a production unit in Germany, Deutsche _______-Film AG, under the direction of Joe Pasternak.In the ___________Pictures did not distribute any of this subsidiary's films, but at least some of them were exhibited through other, independent, foreign-language film distributors based in New York, without benefit of English subtitles.Nazi persecution and a change in ownership for the parent _______Pictures organization resulted in the dissolution of this subsidiary.

Answer: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, a subsidary of NBC UNIVERSAL .

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