With his golden ear, Porter found the studio's acoustics to be problematic, and he devised a set of acoustic baffles to hang from the ceiling, then selected positions for microphones based on resonant room modes.

Performance jobs include playing as a freelancer in small groups, large ensembles, or performing solo music, either live onstage or as a session player for radio or TV broadcasts or for recordings ; and working as the employee of an orchestra, big band, or recording studio ( as the studio's house bassist ).

In April 1937, he signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., and the same year composed the famous fanfare which introduced pictures produced by the studio, although this is no longer in use ( curiously, this was never used for the studio's television productions ).

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

After the acquisition, much of the studio's original talent responsible for creating the Heretic and Hexen games left to form Human Head Studios.

The team wanted to port this game on all platforms to achieve better sales and broaden the fanbase, so they decided to use RenderWare as a game engine to make programming the game on multiple consoles a lot easier, due to the studio's lack of experience developing for the Xbox.

Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.

Lubitsch's film The Marriage Circle was the studio's most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for the year.

After a long period of denying Sam's request for sound, Harry agreed to accept Sam's demands, as long as the studio's use of synchronized sound was for background music purposes only.

The studio focused on making ' quota quickies ' for the domestic British market and Irving Asher was appointed as the studio's head producer.

In 1936, Wallis hired Foy as a producer for the studio's low budget B-films leading to his nickname " the keeper of the B's ".

During 1936, the studio's film The Story of Louis Pasteur proved a box office success and Paul Muni, the film's star, won the Oscar for Best Actor in March 1937.

In 1948, Bette Davis, still the studio's top actress and now fed up with Jack Warner, was a big problem for Harry after she and a number of her colleagues left the studio after completing the film Beyond the Forest.

In 1952, Warner Bros. made their first film ( Carson City ) in " Warnercolor ", the studio's name for Eastmancolor.

By the end of 1953, the studio's net profit was $ 2. 9 million and ranged between $ 2 and $ 4 million for the next two years.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

Realizing this, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn used the Stooges as leverage, as the demand for their films was so great that Columbia eventually refused to supply exhibitors with the trio's shorts unless they also agreed to book some of the studio's mediocre B movies.

In June 1955 he was the last remaining star of the studio's heyday, but with his contract up for renewal — Tracy opted to go independent for the first time in his movie career.

The studio's 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola gave the studio its first Best Picture Oscar.

Poppins, in particular, won five Academy Awards ( and received with the studio's first Best Picture nomination ) and topped the 1964 box office charts while launching the film career of its star, Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar.

By 1954, Hench was in the studio's live action department, as lead developer of the hydraulic giant squid in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, helping to win an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the film.

In addition to Rin Tin Tin, the studio was also able to gain more success with German film director Lubitsch, whose first film with the studio-The Marriage Circle-reached the New York Times Ten Best List for the 1924 ; the film was also the studio's most successful film of the year, and it helped establish Lubitsch as the studio's top director at this point in time.

Thirteen entries in the Tom and Jerry series ( including Puss Gets The Boot ) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons ; seven of them went on to win the Academy Award, breaking the Disney studio's winning streak in that category.

The studio's 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola would also give the studio its first Oscar for Best Picture.

According to Paul Broucek, executive vice president of music for New Line Cinema, in November 2004, " Someone's Watching Over Me " was one of the studio's possible contenders for an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 77th Academy Awards.

The studio's publicity department was relentless in promoting the film, advertising it with lines like: " The Picture Every Christian Ought to See!

Chayefsky and producer Howard Gottfried had just come off a lawsuit against United Artists, challenging the studio's right to lease their previous film, The Hospital, to ABC in a package with a less successful film.

Bluth and Goldman returned to the United States a year earlier to discuss the creation of a feature-animation division at 20th Century Fox ; the studio's three previous animated films ( FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest, and the live-action / animation combo The Pagemaster ) had all failed.

These include Sidney Lumet, who shot the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) at Elstree ; Ken Russellwho had worked with Mitchell on his first feature, the comedy film French Dressing ( 1963 ) made the biographical film Valentino ( 1977 ) at Elstree ; Stanley Kubrick with his The Shining ( 1980 ); Mitchell's previous employer Fred Zinnemann with his drama film Julia ( 1977 ); and most significantly for the studio's survival through George Lucas with his epic space opera film Star Wars ( 1977 ).

He stated that his lack of interest in the previous Godzilla movies, the short time he promised it would take for him to complete the film, and the studio's refusal to screen it for test audiences were all factors that may have negatively affected the quality of the final product, and cited the former reason as to why he turned down an offer to direct Spider-Man as he could not imagine himself as getting enthusiastic about the project because he was never intrigued by comic books and superhero-related fiction.

The film vaulted him from fourth place to first in the studio's roster, finally exceeding James Cagney, and more than doubling his salary to over $ 460, 000 per year by 1946, making him the highest paid actor in the world.

The following year, Hearst's film adaption of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1935 ) failed at the box office and the studio's net loss increased.

That same year, MGM released Kelly's last film, the musical comedy High Society ( based on the studio's 1940 comedy Philadelphia Story ).

Screenwriter Darryl F. Zanuck produced several scripts for Rin Tin Tin vehicles and, during one year, wrote more than half of the studio's features.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the tenth highest grossing film of 1961, accruing $ 6, 400, 000 in distributors ' domestic ( U. S. and Canada ) rentals during its first year of release, and one of the studio's most popular films of the decade.

In late 1979, Walt Disney Productions released The Black Hole, a science-fiction movie that was the studio's first production to receive a PG rating ( the company, however, had already distributed its first PG-rated film, Take Down — without the Disney name visible — almost a year before the release of The Black Hole ).

The same year it was unofficially reported that the film has moved to Universal Studios ' owned Illumination Entertainment, along with the studio's founders, Meledandri and Cohen.

Phillips engages in other projects that challenge the viewer's perceptions of art, such as his ongoing project 20 Sites n Years, in which he photographs the same 20 spots in his studio's neighborhood, once a year.

The following year, hired by 20th Century Fox, he worked on several of the studio's 1950s " A " productions, including three Clifton Webb vehicles, Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell, Elopement ( both 1951 ) and Mister Scoutmaster ( 1953 ), as well as Howard Hawks ' Cary Grant-Ginger Rogers 1952 comedy, Monkey Business, and the 1957 Pat Boone-Shirley Jones musical, April Love.

The Dawn Patrol was an " instant success ", one of the studio's most profitable films that year. Later critical reviews noted that the " anti-war " message was more prevalent in the original film, although due to the re-titling of Flight Commander, the film is often not as well known as its 1938 remake.

Prolific screenwriter Darryl F. Zanuck produced several scripts for Rin Tin Tin vehicles and, during one year, wrote more than half of the studio's features.

In the latter part of 1929, much to Harry's dismay, younger brother Jack would hire sixty-one year old actor George Arliss to star in the studio's film Disraeli.

During the year 1936, the studio's film The Story of Louis Pasteur would prove to be a success at the box office.

The studio prospered post-war time, and by 1946, company payroll had reached $ 600, 000 a week for studio employees, and the studio's net profit would reach $ 19, 424, 650. 00 by the end of the year as well.

He married Faith Elliott ( September 16, 1924 – December 7, 2001 ) the same year as the studio's move, and they collaborated on nearly every film he made until his death in 1977 at age 62 during heart surgery ; their final production was A Doonesbury Special ( with creator Garry Trudeau ), which aired on NBC in November of that year.

Although Tribes: Vengeance, SWAT 4, and Third Reich all shipped within a year of one another in 2004 and 2005, Irrational had been working in preproduction on the first-person shooter BioShock, the studio's most ambitious game at that point, since 2002.

The studio's first animated feature film, Kung Fu Panda 3, will be released in 2016, followed by one animated feature per year till 2018, and with two per year after that.