This document provides information on 7 major American film studios: Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and DreamWorks. It details the founding year of each studio, with Paramount being the oldest at 1912. It also gives brief descriptions of the companies, noting that Columbia, MGM, and Warner Bros. are among the longest continuously operating studios in Hollywood.

3.  Columbia Pictures
 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 Paramount Pictures
 Universal Studios
 Warner Bros.
 20th Century Fox
 DreamWorks

5.  Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an
American film and television production
company. It is part of the Columbia TriStar
Motion Picture Group, which is owned by
Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary
of the multinational conglomerate Sony.
 Established in 1924, Columbia is tied with
MGM for the fifth-oldest American movie
studio still in operation.

7.  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., or MGM, is an
American media company, involved
primarily in the production and distribution
of films and television programs.
 Established in 1924, MGM is tied for the
fifth-oldest movie studio in history with
Columbia Pictures.
 The words "Ars Gratia Artis" above the
Lion, is Latin, and translated, it means "Art
for art's sake."

9.  Paramount Pictures Corporation is a
major American motion picture
production and distribution company,
based in Hollywood, California.
 Founded in 1912, it is the oldest running
movie studio in Hollywood, beating
Universal Studios by a month.
Paramount is owned by media
conglomerate Viacom.

11.  Universal Studios (sometimes called
Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios is
one of the major American film studios. Its
production studios are located at 100
Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City,
California. Universal is the second longest-
lived studio in Hollywood (Viacom's
Paramount Pictures is the oldest by a month).
 Founded on June 8, 1912

13.  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or
Warner Bros. (pronounced Warner
Brothers), is one of the world's largest
producers of film and television
entertainment.
 Founded in 1918, Warner Bros. is the third-
oldest American movie studio in continuous
operation, after Paramount Pictures,
founded in 1912 as Famous Players, and
Universal Studios, also founded in 1912.

15.  Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
(known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corporation), also known
as 20th Century Fox, is one of the six major
American film studios.
 The company was founded in 1935, as the
result of a merger of two entities, Fox Film
Corporation founded by William Fox in
1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures,
begun in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph
Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William
Goetz.

17.  DreamWorks, LLC, also known as
DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks
SKG, or DreamWorks Studios is a major
American film studio which develops,
produces, and distributes films, video
games, and television programming.
 The company was founded from The
Walt Disney Company in 1994.

18. Источники
 www.wikipedia.org