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Founded in 1912 by William Wadsworth Hodkinson as a film distribution company, then merged in 1916 with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players and Jesse Lasky's Feature Play Company to become one of Hollywood's founding studios. It grew into the largest film company of its era and one of the five major integrated studios of the golden age, and remains one of Hollywood's oldest continuously operating major studios.
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Founding Year HeadquartersHollywood, California, United States 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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As a result, it became the largest film company at the time with a value of US$12.5 million (equivalent to $248.2 million in 2024).
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Paramount distributed the film, but four years later Hitchcock sold his stock in Shamley to Universal's parent company MCA, and his remaining six films were made at and distributed by Universal Pictures.
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