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Universal Pictures

Universal Studios is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, and is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States, the world's fourth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé and Nordisk Film, and the oldest in terms of the overall film market. Wikipedia*

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Universal Pictures has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1933 Vignette.

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    The Fighting President

    The Fighting President was a 1933 film from Universal Pictures about the life and career of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. …

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