Tag: Film Organizations in Los Angeles

The historic Raleigh Studios Hollywood, is an independent film and Television studio. The studio originally opened in 1915 as the Famous Players Film Corp, and from 1979 to today, Raleigh Enterprises can boaster as being one of the most state-of-the-art studios in Hollywood. Such as high-speed Internet, and all those fancy gadgets in filmmaking to we all have come to love in the 21st Century. The facility is also host to Streetlights PA’s, just Read more...

First Entertainment Credit Union is a financial institution, which is an alternative to traditional banking. First Entertainment CU is a regulated organization from the California Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), of the United States of America.  Originally founded in 1967 as Warner Seven Federal Credit Union on the Warner Bros. Studios Lot, the company renamed several times throughout Read more...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the new owner of the old May Co. Department Store building originally constructed in 1939, of a Streamline Moderne design similar to the Coca-Cola Building in Downtown Los Angeles. The old May Co. Building was originally designed by architect Albert C. Martin, Sr., who was the same architect as Sid Grauman’s Million Dollar Theater originally built in 1917. The front end of the Read more...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), was formed in 1922 to provide the American film rating system, as well as to prevent the government from interfering with the regulating of movies. The MPAA also supports the film and Television industry in many other ways, such as inspiring the advancement of the art of storytelling, and insuring the protecting of the freedoms of writers and storytellers, as well as promoting Diversity with their MPAA Read more...