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| | Film studio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the United States when he constructed the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville, and dramatic actors to perform for the camera. |
 | | The first movie studio in the Hollywood area was Nestor Studios, opened in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley. |
 | | The Big Five's ownership of theaters was eventually opposed by eight independent producers, including Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, Walt Disney, and Walter Wanger, and in 1948 the federal government won a case against Paramount in the Supreme Court, which ruled that the vertically integrated structure of the company constituted an illegal monopoly. |
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