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EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD
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June 7, I93(
Extensive Expansion at Studio Made by
MGM
for the production
50 Features 176 Shorts
« ♦ ♦ / % N extensive expansion
program, undertaken some months ago, has been completed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at its Culver City studio. A larger production schedule for 1930-31 made expansion necessary.
During the coming season MGM will release 50 feature length pictures and 176 junior features , the latter including 104 issues of the news reels and 72 comedies and colortone revues. This practically doubles the comedy and colortone output.
Included in the heavy building program at the studio were new stages, buildings, shops, power plant, sound equipment and a telephone system large enough for a town of 3,000 population.
Six new stages of modern sound construc
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NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK President
tion and in addition five former silent stages were remodeled and adapted to sound requirements.
One of the new stages contains a theatre in its entirety, with an auditorium 250 by 100 feet, and a stage 80 by 80 by 80 feet in size, with hydraulic lifts and tanks under the stage for aquatic spectacles. This is said to be the largest hippodrome stage outside of New York. A two-ton steel and asbestos curtain, working by hydraulic lifts, can separate this stage into two separate ones, each individually soundproof from the other.
Opposite this is a unit that contains three stages with soundproof partitions that can be removed if necessary to permit it to be thrown into one single stage nearly 400 feet long. These stages are of earthquake proof, or vibrationless construction, built
on the cantilever system, and their doubb walls have three-foot air spaces betweei them. Complete forced ventilation, cooling and heating plants have been installed.
Adjoining this stage unit is a double uni with stages of similar construction 100 b; 125 by 40 feet each in dimension.
The recording building was augmented b; a second concrete unit of two stories, con taining twice the equipment that the orig inal unit maintained.
The studio also has a new industria center, which centralizes all shops and con struction about a spur track on which loca tion trains enter the studio for loading The new shops are of glazed wall construe tion, and include the carpenter, furniture machine and plaster shops, foundries, prop erty shops, construction buildings, electrica (Continued on page 78)
Louis B. Mayer
J. Robert Rubin
Irving Thalberg
THEY WILL SUPERVISE PRODUCTION UNTIL APRIL 1937