He received several offers, including Universal, Fox, and Vitagraph, the best of which came from the Mutual Film Corporation at $ 10, 000 a week.

Moving picture photographers from the Universal Film Manufacturing Company accompanied the expedition, in order to document the life of interior Africa.

Starting in the 1960s, other cartoon studios began using the sound effects, including Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Universal Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, Film Roman, MGM Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, DiC Entertainment, Hasbro Studios, Warner Bros.

With the help of Universal Film Studios, the artist conceived of, and produced, Three Landscapes, a film of marine landscapes, directly related to a series of collages with landscape themes he created between 1964 and 1966.

Despite her mooted retirement, Lawrence was induced to return to work in 1914 for her company ( Victor Film Company ), which was later acquired by Universal Studios.

O ' Hara was also named president of UFFO, The Universal Film & Festival Organization which promotes a code of conduct for film festivals and the film industry.

He and went on to attend Boston University and entered the film industry as a salesman with the Franklin Film Company in 1925, moved to Universal Studios in 1926, and in 1931 began working for Warner Bros. Studios.

* General Film Distributors ( later Rank Film Distributors ), including the UK distribution rights to Universal Pictures

On April 30, 1912, in New York, Carl Laemmle of IMP, Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company, William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company, David Horsley of Nestor Film Company and Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company merged their studios and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated.

On April 30, 1912, Carl Laemmle merged the Independent Motion Picture Company with five smaller companies to form the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

The programme is financed by Kudos Film and Television, Wolf Films ( a company owned by Dick Wolf, the creator of the franchise ) and NBC Universal and airs on ITV1.

Universal Studios and Jennings Lang wanted Earthquake to be an " Event Film "-something that would draw audiences in to the theatre multiple times.

It allows visitors of either theme park to eat all day long ( as many meals as the visitor wishes to enjoy ) from Lunch through dinner at select restaurants These include International Food & Film Festival, Mel's Drive-In, and Louie's Italian Restaurant at Universal Studios Florida and Circus McGurkus Cafe Stoo-pendous, Comic Strip Cafe, and The Burger Digs at Universal's Islands of Adventure Although the selection food is limited, drinks are not included.

The Horsleys operated the Nestor Studios at the Sunset and Gower location until May 20, 1912, when the Universal Film Company was formed, headed by Carl Laemmle.

In 1914, the Universal Film Company, which had acquired Nestor, bought (. 36 sq mi ) of land for a studio and Carl Laemmle named the area Universal City.

In June 1912, Nestor Studios became part of the newly formed Universal Film Company and Al Christie was put in charge of the comedy companies.

He remained with Universal Film until January 1916 at which time he and his brother, Charles Christie, formed their own movie studio named the Christie Film Company.

For the first six months of operations, the new Christie Film Company made comedies under a contract with Universal Film.

Other manufacturing included Edwards Manufacturing ( barn equipment ), Scotsman Ice Machines, Streater Store fixtures, and Universal Milking Machines.

* Universal Manufacturing Corporation, a scaffolding manufacturer

They founded the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company in 1912, and established the studio on of land in the San Fernando Valley, California in 1915.

Manufacturers grew to include ADCO Liberty, American Thermos ( later King Seeley Thermos, or KST ), Kruger Manufacturing Company, Landers, Frary and Clark ( Universal ), Okay Industries, and a number of other producers through the 1980s.

A few weeks later The Man in the Moonlight, a Universal Film Manufacturing Company film was released on July 28.

However, with the amalgamation of several studios to create the colossal Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Lawrence and Solter had little choice but to sell out in 1913.

On June 8, 1912, IMP and other Independent companies were absorbed into the newly incorporated Universal Film Manufacturing Company, with Laemmle as President.

It subsequently took his company 78 years to get back the rights to the Oswald character when in 2006 the Walt Disney Company reacquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal, through a trade for longtime ABC sports commentator Al Michaels.

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" Neoclassical architecture in the Government Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ," from: David R. Francis, The Universal Exposition of 1904 ( St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 1905 ), p. 91.

History of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO: Universal Exposition Publishing Company, 1905.

The very first scanning of the now ubiquitous Universal Product Code ( UPC ) barcode was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974.

Headquartered in Southern California are The Walt Disney Company ( which also owns ABC ), Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers.

The rights to the character are currently held by The Walt Disney Company, though the Winkler and Walter Lantz cartoons that starred Oswald are owned by Universal.

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

The Electronic Control Company soon became the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation and it received an order from the National Bureau of Standards to build the Universal Automatic Computer ( UNIVAC ).

The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney ( either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus ), such as Warner Bros .' ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ), Universal Pictures ( Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), The Weinstein Company ( Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout ), Sony Pictures ( Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook ), Lionsgate ( Happily N ' ever After ), 20th Century Fox ( Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid ), Paramount ( Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Don't Come Back !!)).

On the morning of August 1, Whitman rented a hand truck from Austin Rental Company and cashed $ 250 of worthless checks at the bank before driving to a hardware store, where he purchased a Universal M1 carbine, two additional ammunition magazines and eight boxes of ammunition, explaining to the cashier that he planned to hunt wild hogs.

It is called Shanghai Universal Plastic Toys Company ( usually abbreviated as SUPT / 上海环球塑胶塑胶玩具有限公司 ).

Yongtai Toys Company ( 永泰玩具有限公司 ) was the most famous one, which produced Matchbox toys under the license from Universal but without fixed assets investment.

Shanghai Universal Plastic Toys Company ( SUPT ) has produced them based on its original British kits under the license from Universal ever since its establishment in early ' 90s.

* Rights to the The Caddo Company / Howard Hughes films produced by Hughes for UA are now owned by Universal.

RCA's Canadian unit ( formerly Berliner Gramophone Canada ) is Sony's oldest label in Canada, as it was only one of two Canadian record companies ( Compo Company, now Universal Music Canada, is the other ) to survive the Great Depression.

In 1995, Seagram Company Ltd. acquired 80 % of MCA from Panasonic and the following year the new owners dropped the MCA name ; the company became Universal Studios, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed Universal Music Group.

Though the channel is owned by another subsidiary company operated as a joint venture, Lifetime and its cable networks remain under the co-ownership of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, though NBC Universal became partial owner of the Lifetime channels as well since NBCU already was a part owner of A & E Television Networks.

She was unable to arrest the declining circulation, though, and the magazine was sold to Sol Cohen's Universal Publishing Company in 1965.