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Universal Studios

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 Studios has hosted 6 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1918 Vignette.

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    The Sinking of the Lusitania

    In this 1918 animated film, animation pioneer Winsor McCay painstakingly recreated the May 7, 1915, German attack on RMS Lusi…

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    1936 Film You Can't Get Away With It

    This 1936 Universal News documentary chronicles the activities and methods of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). FBI …

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    Iraqi Newsreel Montage

    Historic Universal Studios newsreel clips were shown that illustrated how the relationship between the U.S. and Iraq has deve…

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    Cuban Missile Crisis Newsreel

    Historic newsreel footage about the Cuban missile crisis was shown.

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