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A movie studio (aka film studio or simply studio) is, in the established sense of the term, a company that distributes motion pictures. Literally, however, the term denotes a controlled environment for the making of a motion picture. This environment may be interior (sound stage), exterior (backlot), or both. In general parlance, the term is synonymous with a major motion picture production company, due largely to the fact that the leading production companies of Hollywood’s Golden Ageâ€â€from the late 1920s to the late 1940sâ€â€owned their own studio facilities, as do a few today. However, worldwide (and even in the United States) the majority of production companies have never owned their own studios, but have rented space at independently owned facilities that, in many cases, never produce a motion picture of their own. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Facility operations for film and television production |
