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Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).
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Twenty-two years after his death, the British Parliament passed an Act allowing his paintings to be lent to museums outside London, and so began the process of scattering the pictures which Turner had wanted to be kept together.
In 1987 a new wing of the Tate, the Clore Gallery, was opened specifically to house the Turner bequest, though some of the most important paintings in it remain in the National Gallery in contravention of Turner's condition that the finished pictures be kept and shown together.
Without any financial backers, Turner soon fell into debt and sold back most of MGM, but kept the library for his own company, Turner Entertainment.
" Turner and his comrades save their special contempt for the ordinary people, who care about nothing beyond being kept comfortable and entertained.
Although subsequent printings of The Turner Diaries have featured different cover art or back cover copy, they have kept to the second edition's text.
Although Turner urged Senator Jackson to fire him, Perle received a warning and was kept on staff according to the Washington Post.
The title track " Falling into You " and " River Deep, Mountain High " ( a Tina Turner cover ) made prominent use of percussion instruments ; " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " ( a remake of Jim Steinman's song ) and a remake of Eric Carmen's " All by Myself " kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano ; and the number-one single " Because You Loved Me ", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.
While Minister without Portfolio is seen by some as a mere patronage appointment, it has been a role that numerous political notables have played over time, including former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who filled the role in a Pearson cabinet in the 60s ; John Turner also " kept a seat warm " in a Pearson cabinet.
After re-selling the studio, Turner kept its library, which included the following:
Turner kept ownership of the combined MGM / UA for just 74 days.
( though Turner kept the pre-1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries after the purchase of MGM / UA ) The studio lot was sold to Lorimar-Telepictures, which was later acquired by Warner Bros .; in 1990, the lot was sold to Sony Corporation's Columbia TriStar Pictures in exchange for the half of Warner's lot they'd rented since the 1970s.
Turner kept Roberts in his cabinet as Minister of Employment and Immigration.
His success didn't come immediately, as the team posted a 4 – 12 record in 2003, thereby " earning " the first overall pick in the draft ( this was the last time that a team with the worst record in the NFL kept its head coach the following season, even considering the three other 4 – 12 teams that season replaced their head coaches, Oakland, Arizona, and the New York Giants hiring Norv Turner, Dennis Green, and Tom Coughlin, respectively ).
Irving Turner stopped singing with the group, but was kept on as valet ( and occasional fill-in ).
It was a great personal loss when his wife died from pneumonia in 1949, though he kept on their Hampstead house with the aid of a housekeeper, until 1967 when he moved to Cambridge after marrying ( on 11 January ) Margaret Theodosia ( 1896 / 7 – 1975 ), widow of Laurence Beddome Turner, reader emeritus in engineering, Cambridge, and second daughter of George Frederick Ebenezer Scott, architect, and Mrs Bernard Turner, of Godstowe School, High Wycombe.
ESPN kept this contract until the 1997 season, by which time the NFL had expanded its Sunday night offerings to the full season and added Turner Sports as a broadcast partner.
However, Turner was forced by a crushing dept to return Kerkorian all of United Artists and the MGM trademark 74 days later, on June 8, but kept the pre-May 1986 MGM television shows, the holdings of Associated Artists Productions, and Gilligan's Island and it's two animated spin-offs The New Adventures of Gilligan and Gilligan's Planet.
UA and later Ted Turner and Warner Bros. ( after re-acquiring the rights ) have upheld this ban and kept Clean Pastures from being distributed on home video, laser disc, or DVD.
The film follows the series ' main character ten-year-old Timmy Turner, who has kept his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, a secret for one whole year thus far.
When Turner sold back the MGM / UA production unit, he kept the MGM library, including the a. a. p.
In the late silent era, Humphrey, with other original Vitagraph actors such as Florence Turner, Maurice Costello, and Flora Finch, was kept on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer payroll for expert playing of character roles.
Turner and MGM's
In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.
Turner soon made a deal with MGM's video division for home distribution of most of Turner's library, allowing MGM to retain US video rights to Network for 13 more years.
It is the only film in the WB library whose copyright is owned by both WB and Turner Entertainment ( the initial buyer of MGM's pre-1986 library ).
In 1986, when Ted Turner acquired MGM's library ( which by then had included Warner Bros .' pre-1950, MGM's pre-1986, and a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures catalogs ), he vowed to continue the preservation work MGM had started.
MGM now owns part of the copyright ( as they retained the rights to UA's releases ), sharing it with Turner ( as a result of the aforementioned purchase of MGM's library ).
Though the Turner sale included all of MGM's rights to most of its pre-1986 films, MGM retained its overall rights to the Fame franchise as the TV series was still in production in 1986.
Turner sold the company a short while later, but retained MGM's pre-1986 film library, thus Tom and Jerry became the property of Turner Entertainment ( where the rights stand today via Warner Bros .), and have in subsequent years appeared on Turner-run stations, such as TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, The WB, Boomerang, and Turner Classic Movies.
However when the executive producer Steven Spielberg went to acquire the rights in 1986, MGM's pre-1986 library ( which Tom and Jerry were a part of ) was being purchased by Turner Entertainment which created a series of legal complications.
In 1986, a year after Disney acquired the rights to use The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Singin ' in the Rain, The Public Enemy, Tarzan the Ape Man and The Footlight Parade ; Ted Turner purchased MGM's pre-1986 library and all of a. a. p's library, thus forming Turner Entertainment.
Both Roach's The Little Rascals package ( now owned by CBS Television Distribution ) and MGM's Our Gang package ( now owned by Turner Entertainment ) have since remained in syndication, with periodic new productions based on the shorts surfacing over the years, including a 1994 Little Rascals feature film released by Universal Pictures.
In 1986, MGM's pre-May 1986 library ( also including the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, the Fleischer Studios / Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, most US rights to the RKO Pictures library, and Gilligan's Island and it's animated spin-offs ), was acquired by Ted Turner and his company Turner Entertainment Co .. After the library was acquired, MGM / UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries for video release ( the rest of the library went to Turner Home Entertainment ).
For this second documentary, archivists featured more obscure musical numbers from MGM's vaults, and also featured tributes to some of the studio's best known comedy teams such as the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, romantic teams such as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and a montage of iconic stars such as Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner, and Greta Garbo.
Turner and pre-May
When the pre-May 1986 MGM library was bought by Turner Entertainment, both productions were included in the roster as well.
* The pre-May 1986 MGM films released through United Artists ( and outside Anglo-America through Cinema International Corporation and United International Pictures ) are also now with WB / Turner Entertainment.
* Some of the pre-May 1986 MGM / UA films made around the early 1980s still remain in the MGM library and were not picked up by Turner Entertainment due to most of these films produced by UA ( ex.
In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after its short-lived ownership of MGM / UA, and as a result CBS / Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM / UA Home Video.
During 1986, Turner bought the pre-May 1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library, the RKO Radio Pictures library, the Associated Artists Productions library, and some United Artists material ( including some post-1952 UA material such as Gilligan's Island and its spinoffs, and Bugs Bunny Superstar ) from MGM / UA.
Turner Entertainment also distributes films from the RKO Radio Pictures, pre-May 1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries, certain films from New Line Cinema ( 1994 – 1997 ), and shows from TBS, TNT, Hanna-Barbera ( 1991 – 1997 ), Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV and PBS ( 1994 – 2004 ) on home video via Turner Home Entertainment, and after 1996, Warner Home Video ( which currently operates Turner's home video subsidiary as an in-name-only division ) ( see below ).
Turner Classic Movies ( TCM ) is a movie-oriented cable television channel, owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner, featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment film library, which comprises the pre-May 1986 MGM, RKO and pre-1950 Warner Bros. films.
Thus, when Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting System in October 1996, the pre-May 1986 MGM / UA TV shows became part of Warner Bros. ( via its Turner Entertainment unit ).
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