By contrast, the Consul General in Stuttgart, Samuel Honaker, made the visa process "unnecessarily hard, " at least according to letters from Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures and an ardent rescuer, to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

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From the era of silent movies through the present day, Universal Pictures has been regarded as the home of the monsters.

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Baron Cohen and his film's distributor, Universal Pictures, have meanwhile been impervious to a flood of lawsuits that have emerged from angry individuals who appeared in the film thanks to a team of legal heavyweights, a carefully constructed legal framework and a rule that all people who appeared in the film sign consent forms.

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Universal Pictures, and hopes to start delivering movies to customers as soon as a year from now.

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