From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   I was thinking about this; aside from franchises, do you know what studio puts   
   out which pictures?  Of course, it's not the studios that have personalities,   
   it's the personnel.     
      
   Despite the 20th Century Fanfare melding well with the opening of the Star   
   Wars theme, or the Paramount logo yielding to a mountain joke in the beginning   
   of the Indiana Jones films, we think of those two series as coming from the   
   same source.  (and in    
   twenty years we'll be answering questions like, "What do you mean they came   
   from different studios?" [1])   
      
   There's an example this Tuesday through Thursday on TCM.  Tonight is the Val   
   Lewton horror films produced for RKO, and Wednesday and Thursday George Pal   
   produced films except for Puppetoon skipping his Paramount years for his MGM   
   period.   
      
   MGM is a bit all over the map; in the '60s they produced "The Time Machine",   
   "2001", and "The Green Slime".  For Fox and WB (except for their cartoon   
   department) I can't think of any fantastical identity.  Paramount had three   
   George Pal films, but when    
   they wanted to compete with Star Wars the only property they could think of   
   was that one they bought from Desilu.  Columbia is associated with   
   Harryhausen, though he did work for some other studios.  Universal is the   
   monsters, of course, and the makeup    
   of Jack Pierce.   
      
   How about you?  When you think of a studio, what movies come to your mind?   
      
      
      
   [1] This is not the first time that's happened.  Ted Turner bought MGM, and   
   held onto the film library to merge it with Warner Brothers', to be shown   
   together on his channels and offered from Warner Video.  Universal gained   
   control of hundreds of    
   Paramount films during the early days of television, most notably their Marx   
   Bros movies, in the genre: "The Island of Lost Souls", "Death Takes a   
   Holiday", and "Dr. Cyclops".[2]  They've done video releases, but haven't   
   folded them into the "Universal    
   monsters."   
      
      
   [2] They missed Fredric March in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".  MGM bought the   
   rights to that when they made their Spenser Tracy version, to keep it from   
   being re-released in competition.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)