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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Universal comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 58:56 David Rosenthal But then they sign up with universal as their movie distributor, and they set up their headquarters on universal's lot, which is also a theme park.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:29 Ben Gilbert And when you look at Disney's profits today, it is in a whole different league than Paramount or Universal or Warner Brothers or any of the other sort of classic Hollywood studios.
- ▶ 24:18 Ben Gilbert Do you know this story of the Universal lot?
- ▶ 24:21 Ben Gilbert So he rolls up to the Universal lot after getting there, having no job, no money, borrowing a bed, and he goes and has fake business cards made that says he is with Universal.
- ▶ 24:34 Ben Gilbert He's just the Kansas City representative, so no one at Universal would really know who he is.
- ▶ 24:57 Ben Gilbert I'm sort of like with Universal, and now I have experience, and can you give me a job?
- ▶ 30:44 David Rosenthal With Universal Pictures, the big New York film distributor, to on the sly create a new character to rival Felix.
- ▶ 31:51 David Rosenthal He's got the backing of Universal distribution behind it.
- ▶ 31:54 David Rosenthal That's a big hit for Universal, a big hit for Winkler and Mintz, and a big hit for the Disney Brothers cartoon studio.
- ▶ 35:58 David Rosenthal Universal does.
- ▶ 39:32 Ben Gilbert It was Universal, which was owned by NBC, which is now owned by Comcast.
- ▶ 48:18 David Rosenthal I mean, the only reason that the Oswalds worked, even though they were a ripoff of Felix, was because they came built in with the universal distribution.
- ▶ 48:33 David Rosenthal So, Walt lines up access to the cinephone sound recording system from a character named Pat Powers, who had actually helped create Universal, you know, some number of decades earlier, and then had gone on to become a sound accolade and…
- ▶ 54:18 David Rosenthal His partner in the sound technology, who had been one of the, you know, original universal executives, and they cut a deal where Powers will be Disney's direct distribution agent in return for just 10% of the gross revenue on the Mickeys,…
- ▶ 4:10:50 Ben Gilbert The business of movie production on its own is a terrible business, but the other studios, like, you gotta give Universal a ton of credit.
- ▶ 4:11:00 David Rosenthal Universal is probably the closest, but even then, it's not Disney.
- ▶ 4:11:05 Ben Gilbert I mean, isn't Universal running effectively the, the same playbook, but with
- ▶ 4:11:12 Ben Gilbert Less valuable IP or IP that they don't own.
- ▶ 4:11:14 Ben Gilbert So they have to sort of share it.
- ▶ 4:12:16 Ben Gilbert Universal doesn't own all of the rights to everything Harry Potter, but Disney for sure does own all the rights to everything Buzz Lightyear.
- ▶ 4:16:03 Ben Gilbert What's your favorite Universal song?
- ▶ 4:17:03 David Rosenthal Right, and Nintendo is partnered with Universal now for their perks.