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

Joe Wizan, the studio's head of production, rejected it with the statement that Fox didn't make " rural movies ".

As he perfected his animation style, he began to take on more jobs, including creating design tests for the studio's head director, Gene Deitch.

The head of the studio's editing department called Jones to say that a representative was coming to take the film.

Pascal retained her position as president of the newly united Columbia Pictures, while Lee became the combined studio's head of production.

One of the studio's television specials was 1973's The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, with Tommy Smothers voicing the little bruin who goes out to find Christmas ( in the human world ), while his fellow bears head for hibernation.

By the end of 1941, the brothers were no longer able to cooperate with each other, and the studio's co-owner Dave Fleischer had left Florida for California, where he would eventually become the new head of Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems studio.

" Bakshi pitched Cool World to Paramount Pictures ( where Bakshi had worked as the final head of the studio's animation division ) as an animated horror film.

As a result of the film's success, director Harry Rapf was appointed the studio's new head producer.

The studio's initial head was Hal Geer, who had been the original studio's sound effects editor during its final days, and he was soon joined by Friz Freleng, who left DePatie-Freleng ( which became Marvel Productions after being sold to Marvel Entertainment ), and returned to Warner as executive producer.

Lewin was appointed head of the studio's script department and by the late 20s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate.

The studio rebounded in 1921 with the success of the studio's film Why Girls Leave Home ; The film's director, Harry Rapf, became the studio's new head producer.

In 1924, after Rapf departed the studio to accept an offer at MGM, Ernst Lubitsch, the successful director of The Marriage Circle, was also given the title of head producer ; Lubitsch would add additional success for the studio's profits.

In 1933, however, a blow would also occur as the studio's longtime head producer Darryl F. Zanuck would quit, because: ( 1 ) Harry was strongly against allowing his film Baby Face to step outside the Hays Code boundaries ; and 2 ) the studio reduced his salary as a result of the financial woes the studio temporarly faced from President Roosevelt's bank holiday, and Harry still refused to raise his salary in the wake of the New Deal's economic rebound.

Eventually he worked his way up to head of the studio's makeup department,

Crowther wrote The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire ( 1957 ), the first book documenting the history of MGM, as well as Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer ( 1960 ), a biography of that studio's head.

* Carrie Preston as Sally Stone, a wild Guy Stone fanatic and the studio's head secretary

Incidental music for the studio's cartoons through 1960 came from stock production music purchased from Capitol Records.

In 1993, the last president of the studio, Fred Seibert recalled his early production experiences with early LP releases of the studio's effects, and commissioned Sound Ideas to release a four-CD set entitled The Hanna-Barbera Sound FX Library, featuring nearly all of the original H-B sound effects used from 1957 to 1990, a more vast collection compared to the early LP releases ( including the sounds H-B had borrowed from other studios ).

By the time Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924 and she was cast in the studio's first official production, He Who Gets Slapped, she had become one of MGM's biggest box-office attractions.

As production costs of The Sorcerer's Apprentice climbed to $ 125, 000, it became clearer to Disney and his brother Roy, who managed the studio's finances, that the short could never earn such a sum back on its own.

When Bakshi was 18, his friend Cosmo Anzilotti was hired by the cartoon studio Terrytoons ; Anzilotti recommended Bakshi to the studio's production manager, Frank Schudde.

However, they still maintained their positions as heads of their studio's production.

In 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood to oversee the studio's West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost-effective climate existed for filmmaking.

20th Century Fox Television is the studio's television production division.

Thalberg, now Universal's general manager, was forced to have the director quickly finalize production before the studio's working capital was used up.

Beginning in 2011, the studio's production logo and on-screen credit was shortened to simply " Disney ".

Dave served as the director and supervised the studio's production, while Max served as the producer.

Woody continued to appear in new theatrical shorts until 1972, when Lantz closed his studio's doors due to rising production costs.

In Season Two, as Nelvana was no longer part of the production, the show was written by the D. I. C studio's employees Eleanor Burian-Mohr, Mike O ' Mahoney, Glen Egbert and Jack Hanrahan ( a former Get Smart writer, among much else ).

Notorious started life as a David O. Selznick production, but by the time it hit American screens in August 1946, it bore the RKO studio's logo.

The pixilation technique was also used for the opening of Claymation, Will Vinton's 1978, 17-minute documentary about his animation studio's production techniques, the first time the famous trademarked Claymation term was used, now a term synonymous with all clay animation.

This ensured a profitable revenue stream from the programs through re-runs, which would recover the studio's initially high development and production costs.

The studio's initial attempt to become involved in film production was the 1956 film Forever, Darling, Arnaz and Ball's follow-up to their highly successful The Long, Long Trailer ( 1954 ), but it failed at the box office.

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 ).

While the kinds of films produced by Poverty Row studios only grew in popularity, they would eventually become increasingly available both from major production companies and from independent producers who no longer needed to rely on a studio's ability to package and release their work.

A second feature film version of Gatchaman had been in production by Imagi Animation Studios for release in 2012, but was ultimately canceled due to the studio's financial problems.

Berman became President of Paramount Pictures in March 2005 and was responsible for the studio's annual slate of films, including the acquisition of literary properties, development, budgeting, casting, and the production of motion pictures for Paramount Pictures, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies.

The studio's production logo features a wavy gray image of Space Ghost's fictional studio from Space Ghost Coast to Coast, with the words " Ghost Planet Industries " or " Williams Street " written underneath it.

) Under the deal, the films were stripped of their RKO identity before being sent by C & C to local stations ; the famous opening logo, with its globe and radio tower, was removed, as were the studio's other trademarks.

Unhappy at the emerging wartime working conditions at Disney plus bothered by ongoing sinus problems caused by the studio's air conditioning, Barks quit in 1942.

) Porter soon helped Atkins get a better reverberation sound from the studio's German effects device, an EMT plate reverb.

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.

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

The studio's founder, Walter Montague, was nonetheless impressed by Capra and offered him $ 75 to direct a one-reel silent film.

His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films including What Price Hollywood?

Most of the studio's better movie scripts went to these men, and Bogart had to take what was left.

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.

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.

He also acquiesced to her refusal to participate in block-booking, the widespread practice of forcing an exhibitor to show a bad film of the studio's choosing in order to also show a Pickford film.

Some systems use dedicated hardware to reduce the load on the host CPU, as with Symbolic Sound Corporation's Kyma System, and the Creamware / Sonic Core Pulsar / SCOPE systems, which used several DSP chips hosted on a PCI card to power an entire studio's worth of instruments, effects, and mixers.

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.

The studio's massive remaining backlot set, " New York Street ", features numerous blocks of facades that depict a number of New York locales: " Washington Square ", ( where The Heiress, starring Olivia de Havilland, was shot ) " Harlem ", " Financial District ", and others.

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.

Sega Studio USA went on to make their next multiplatform game, Shadow the Hedgehog, using the studio's own game engine instead of RenderWare.

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.

He would return to Disney in 1940 and go on to pioneer a number of film processes and specialized animation technologies in the studio's research and development department.

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.

In a bidding war with William Fox, Warner Bros. bought more First National shares on September 13, 1928 ; Jack Warner also appointed producer Darryl Zanuck as the studio's manager of First National Pictures.

Through First National, the studio's profit increased substantially.