Baalbeck Studios

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Baalbeck Studios was a movie-producing company in Lebanon. The company was founded in 1962 by Palestinian businessman Badie Bulos and started operating on 2 January 1963 in the same premises in which the Lebanese Recording Company (LRC) had started operating in 1957. [1] [2] [3] In the 1960s, it became one of the most prominent movie studios of the Arab world. [1] The offices of the company were located in the Beirut suburb Sin al-Fil. [2]

The peak years of Baalbeck Studios were 1965–1974. [4] By 1971 Intra increased its share of ownership in Baalbeck Studios to 82%. [5] During the Lebanese Civil War production of movies by Baalbeck Studios was sporadic. [2] The studios were repeatedly looted during the war years. [6]

Baalbeck Studios was revived after the war. [2] However, it closed down for good in 1994. [4] In 2010, as the former building of the company was about to be demolished, material from Baalbeck Studios were donated to UMAM Documentation and Research. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Terri Ginsberg; Chris Lippard (11 March 2010). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 25. ISBN   978-0-8108-7364-3.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Daily Star. Film history faces destruction again
  3. ↑ Hady Zaccak (1997). Le cinéma libanais: itinéraire d'un cinéma vers l'inconnu, 1929-1996. Dar el-Machreq sarl. p. 62. ISBN   978-2-7214-9002-5.
  4. 1 2 Oliver Leaman (16 December 2003). Companion Encyclopaedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. p. 373. ISBN   978-1-134-66252-4.
  5. ↑ Middle East Economic Digest, Vol. 15. Economic East Economic Digest, Limited. 1971. p. 1013.
  6. ↑ Aruna Vasudev; Latika Padgaonkar; Rashmi Doraiswamy (2002). Being & becoming, the cinemas of Asia. Macmillan. p. 530. ISBN   978-0-333-93820-1.

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