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In Sunset Boulevard, Max drives Norma into this studio through its Bronson Gate archway. This studio dropped its non-anamorphic widescreen competitor to CinemaScope, VistaVision, after just seven years. During the 1930s, this studio churned out so-called “continental” films from a backlot that Ernst Lubitsch claimed to prefer to the real Paris. This studio was the first to force theaters to blindly buy films through (*) “block booking.” Edith Head spent 43 years at this studio, which made the five earliest and zaniest Marx Brothers films. (10[1])This studio was the primary defendant of a major antitrust case in which the Supreme Court broke studio control over cinema chains (10[1])and weakened the Hays Code. For 10 points, Adolph Zukor co-founded what Big Five studio, whose logo is a mountain? ■END■ (10[1])

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