Animation Studios Research Articles

A Total-Concept Facility for Teaching Motion Pictures and Television

A complete motion-picture studio has been built as one fully integrated self-sufficient facility for the conception, production and presentation of motion pictures. Preproduction facilities include a design hall for lectures and scenic design presentation, libraries, offices and storage space. Production facilities include three film soundstages, two TV stages, three film-loading rooms, equipment checkout and maintenance spaces, a complete animation studio, special-effects and insert photography rooms and rehearsal halls. Postproduction facilities include 26 editing rooms, ten videotape editing rooms, two sound-transfer rooms, four daily screening rooms, two theaters, a rerecording and dubbing studio, a titles-opticals-printing room, three still photography darkrooms, two negative-handling rooms and vault storage. The soundstages are isolated from one another by six inches of concrete on all sides. Power can be divided equally between three stages, or diverted entirely to one for special heavy lighting requirements. Equipment and production facilities which can be used at this studio, located at UCLA, are described.