Movie studio

A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film. This environment may be interior (sound stage), exterior (backlot) or both.

Disambiguation

In casual usage, the term has become confused with production company, due to the fact that, especially in the United States, the major, well-known production companies of the "Golden Era of Film" (roughly 1925-1960) normally owned their own studio subsidiaries. In point of fact, however, worldwide, and even in the USA, most production companies did not own their own studios but had to rent needed space at independently-owned studios which, just as frequently, never produced a film of their own.

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