Artransa Park Film Studios

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Artransa Park Film Studios (APFS), was an Australian motion picture production company and film animation studio. It was based in Sydney, Australia and founded by Grace Gibson and Alfred Edward Bennett. [1] Artransa was a contraction of the American Radio Transcriptions of Australia. [2] The company employed 90 staff, in 1967 [3]

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