Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), and was one of the "Little Three" majors during Hollywood's golden age. Woody Woodpecker, who was created in 1940 by Walter Lantz and Ben Hardaway, serves as the mascot of the company. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004.
Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, it is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal.įounded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Makeready (co-backing with Entertainment One only, film and television production company run by Brad Weston).