Film Library
The rights to the Selznick library have been scattered, as noted in the following timeline.
- 1943: Jock Whitney sold to Film Classics, Inc. the rights to A Star Is Born and Nothing Sacred (both of which were actually owned by Pioneer Pictures), and the Selznick International productions Little Lord Fauntleroy, Made for Each Other, and The Young in Heart.
- 1947: Cinecolor Corporation acquired Film Classics, Inc.
- 1949: Cinecolor Corp. resold the company to Film Classics' officers.
- 1950: Film Classics was merged with Eagle-Lion Films to form Eagle Lion Classics.
- 1951: When Eagle Lion Classics collapsed, United Artists acquired its assets.
David O. Selznick retained ownership of The Garden of Allah, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Intermezzo, and Rebecca after the liquidation of Selznick International Pictures. Most of the Selznick films are now owned by ABC (via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures). The notable exception is Gone with the Wind, which Jock Whitney and his sister sold to MGM in 1944, which was subsequently acquired by Turner Entertainment, with distribution by Warner Bros. The films A Star Is Born, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Nothing Sacred, and Made for Each Other are now in the public domain in the United States, with original film negatives to the latter three films owned by Disney and the former's owned by Warner Bros.
Papers and other artifacts of the studio are now part of the David O. Selznick Collection in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
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