Selznick International Pictures

Selznick International Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio, founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor John Hay Whitney. In its short life of five years and eleven features, the studio produced two winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture: Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), and a third nominee, A Star Is Born (1937). In 1940, Selznick and the other owners began dissolving the studio for tax purposes, while Selznick formed David O. Selznick Productions at the same studio location.

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Hollywood - 1935 - David O. Selznick - John Hay Whitney - Features - Academy Award - Gone with the Wind - Rebecca - A Star Is Born - 1940 - David O. Selznick Productions

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Physically, the studio was located on a section of the RKO Radio Pictures lot in Culver City, California. To film the burning of the Atlanta Depot for Gone with the Wind, the standing Great Wall set from RKO's King Kong was redressed and used as a burning building.

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RKO Radio Pictures - Culver City, California - Gone with the Wind - King Kong

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The papers and other artifacts of the studio are now part of the David O. Selznick Collection in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - University of Texas, Austin

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