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July 15, 1964
- On July 15, 1964, MCA established the Studio Tour, which provided guests a behind-the-scenes glimpse of film and television production at Universal Studios. This established a footprint of what is now known as Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.
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History. The first studio tour. In 1914, German American immigrant Carl Laemmle bought the Taylor Ranch in the San Fernando Valley and founded Universal City as a gigantic studio with a zoo, its own police and mayor and Native Americans living on the premises.
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Universal Studios Hollywood officially created. Albert Dorskind (see above) persuades MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman to invest $4 million in designing trams and building food courts, parking lots and restrooms.
On July 15, 1964, MCA established the Studio Tour, which provided guests a behind-the-scenes glimpse of film and television production at Universal Studios. This established a footprint of what is now known as Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.
In 1962 MCA acquired controlling interest in Decca, thus obtaining the Universal studios, which MCA wanted for television production. MCA renovated studio facilities and reinstituted tours of Universal City in 1964.
This established a footprint of what is known today as the Universal Studios Hollywood film studio and theme park. Over the next few decades, similar parks were built and expanded under MCA for Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida and Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan.
Two years later in 1964 MCA formed Universal City Studios, Inc., merging the motion pictures and television subsidiaries of Universal Pictures and Revue Productions into a modern studio and re-opening the Universal Studio Tour. Television made up most of the studio's output in a deal with NBC.
