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词条 Universal Studios
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Universal Studios
American motion-picture studio
American motion-picture studio that was one of the leading producers of film serials in the 1920s and of popular horror films in the '30s. Carl Laemmle, a film exhibitor turned producer, formed the company in 1912. In its early days it was a top producer of popular, low-budget serials and also presented many of the films of Erich von Stroheim (Stroheim, Erich von) (1885–1957), who was a pioneer in realistic film direction.
For many years after the award-winning film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the studio presented its characteristic low-budget films, which included the well-known horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Dracula (1931). In the 1960s it regained much box-office success through the comedies of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. It was known as Universal-International for a time and in the early 1970s it was purchased by the Music Corporation of America, which turned it into the largest and most profitable packager of films for television in the world. Universal was subsequently involved in a series of acquisitions, and in 2004 the company (as part of Vivendi Universal Entertainment) merged with the National Broadcasting Co., Inc., to form NBC Universal. There were fires at Universal Studios in 1990 and 2008; the latter destroyed two square blocks of the studio lot as well as its popular King Kong attraction.
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