Universal Studios Which is called as universal pictures or Universal City studios is a subsidiary of NBC Universal Which is one of the Major Six movie Studios.It is found in 1912 by Carl Laemmle,it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production.
In the year 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric,which is a parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution.It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.
Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City,California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio;Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures is the oldest by a month.
The music which is being used in the present Logo is composed by Jerry Glodsmith.
In 1927, Charles B. Mintz, a film producer and distributor, took control over Margaret J. Winkler's Winkler Pictures after marrying Winkler. He commissioned an all new all-animated series for production that would be distributed through Universal Pictures. The series, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was created by animator Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. A young Disney, in the years before gaining worldwide acclaim with his own studio, earlier entered into a creative contract with Winkler for producing cartoon shorts like "Oswald." Disney tried negotiating a higher fee for the shorts he was making.
