Once simply the largest and most glamorous of the film studios, MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures.

Once he established himself, most studios were willing to pay a high fee for his service.

Once planned as a stand-alone radio station, it eventually launched on 14 November 1991 as a limited opt-out service of BBC Radio Sussex, broadcasting from newly-built studios on the campus of the University of Surrey in Guildford.

Once the franchise was won, Ocean Sound needed brand-new state of the art studios in Segensworth West, a district outside Fareham, beside the M27 motorway in Hampshire.

Once the studios were complete, staff needed to be hired-almost from scratch.

Once a year, the art building and all of the studios are opened to the public in an event called " Open Studios.

Once again, the threat of bankruptcy threatened one of Hollywood's early film studios.

Once back in the States, Neal quickly got to work, traveling and setting up studios in Washington, Cleveland, New York, and so on, including his second exhibition at the San Francisco Art Academy in 1898.

" Once again, it ’ s time to lament that while Jackie Chan has spent the past few years churning out mostly mediocre-or-worse flops like “ Around the World in 80 Days ” or those damn “ Rush Hour ” sequels in Hollywood, he ’ s also spent the same time flying back home every now and then to make some darn-good-or-better flicks that, sadly, remain mostly unseen Stateside because they ’ ve been unceremoniously dumped onto DVD by the studios that pick up the rights to them but then never really bother to do anything about it.

Once into the Medway Valley the northern outskirts of Maidstone are reached ; and a second series of junctions, this time with the M20 motorway are reached.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

Once, they were at Easthampton for the summer ( again, Fritzie said, a good place, even though they were being robbed ).

Once on the road ( and especially if the passengers were all regulars and masculine ), the schedule meant nothing.

Once again, both anti-A and anti-B activities were found in the insoluble material precipitated during dialysis.

Once more, Juet's complaints were the loudest.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.

Once they were gone, Abd a-Rahman and Bedr immediately set off westwards.

Once " stand off " nuclear weapon designs were developed, bombers did not need to pass over the target at high altitude to make an attack ; they could fire and turn away to escape the blast.

Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.

Once the account exceeded its quotas, it was automatically disabled, but the messages were still saved as they arrived.

Once the price of inkjet printers dropped to the point where they were competitive with dot matrix printers, dot matrix printers began to fall out of favor for general use.

Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.

Once the toads were established, a 1963 study concluded, as the toad's diet included both harmful and beneficial invertebrates, it was considered " economically neutral ".

Once the bombardment had disordered the infantry formation, cavalry were able to rout and pursue the scattered foot soldiers.

Once at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.

* The songs " A Very Strange Agony " and " To Die Only Once " of the Spanish symphonic metal band Döxa were inspired by " Carmilla ".

Once the round has ended, surviving players retain their equipment for use in the next round ; players who were killed begin the next round with the basic default starting equipment.

Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.

Once again his spirits were raised when the unit under his command received orders overseas to France ; this time his wishes were thwarted when the armistice was signed, just a week before departure.

Once in office, when the Chinese began a buildup in the Kaesong sanctuary, he threatened to use nuclear force if an armistice were not concluded.

Once captured, he was humiliated by Hernando Pizarro and his requests for appeals to the King were ignored.

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

Once the observations were completed, Cook opened the sealed orders which were additional instructions from the Admiralty for the second part of his voyage: to search the south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of Terra Australis.

Once work resumed, however, Sawakin port opened in January 1991, and was capable of handling an estimated 1. 5 million tons of cargo a year.

Once the procedures were agreed, Cranmer opened his court on 10 May, inviting Henry and Catherine of Aragon to appear.

According to the documentary Once Upon a Time, Sergio Leone, the film opened in medias res as the camera goes from focusing on a Russian hiding from the Nazis ' artillery fire to panning hundreds of feet away to show the German Panzer divisions approaching the walls of the city.

Once an excavation in one section of the cemetery was full, it would be covered over and another opened.

Once artists began settling and working in Taos, others came, art galleries and museums were opened and the area became an artistic center — though not a formal, funded art colony providing artists with aid, as Yaddo and MacDowell do.

Once back in New York, he set about organising a series of street concerts and opened a new shop, the ' Fluxhall ', on Canal Street.

Once the navigation was opened as far as Slane Jebb himself built a flour mill at Slane.

Once the line was opened to Dover, the town began to prosper ( which meant growth westwards ), further stations were opened at Folkestone West ( originally named Shorncliffe Camp ) in 1863, and Folkestone Central in 1884.

Once the Erie Canal was opened in 1825, entrepreneurs promoted other canals, including the Miami and Erie Canal and the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Once a show has opened ( premiered before a regular audience ), theatre directors are generally considered to have fulfilled their function.

Once the mines were opened, unions were organized and strikes followed.

Once the railway opened, Dunn and Bates constructed more buildings.

Once the Indians had built a new life there, the U. S. government opened up the area for homesteading in 1875, and once again, forced the Indians to move — some returned to their ancestral homelands, others went north to the Siletz Reservation.

Once the engine starts, the key-operated switch is opened, a spring in the solenoid assembly pulls the pinion gear away from the ring gear, and the starter motor stops.

Once in Gaul, Ataulf opened negotiations with a new usurper, the Gallic Jovinus.

Once opened, port generally lasts longer than unfortified wine but is still best if consumed within a short period of time.

Once the park had opened, a pub across the road from its eastern entrance along Seven Sisters Road called itself the Hornsey Wood Tavern after the original.

Once in orbit the capsules were opened and the lichens were directly exposed to the vacuum of space with its widely fluctuating temperatures and cosmic radiation.

Once Herter entered the contest, Tinkham withdrew and thereby opened the way for Herter to be elected.

Once inside Yaitsk, they opened the gates for the rest of the troops to enter and occupy the city.

Once out of earshot of the other pirates, the Swallow opened her gun ports and opened fire.