They used it to record friends and parties, and later opened one of the first private sound studios in America.

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Act Two puts the collection of outfits -- on loan from film studios and private collectors worldwide -- in context, through video interviews with actor and actresses.

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He was a private security guard at The Culver Studios lot, which is used for filming music videos and tour rehearsals.

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Every year since 2003, artists in the Fo Tan neighbourhood have opened their usually private workspaces to the public in a weekend-long festival, called Fotanian Open Studios.

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The MPAA has devoted years to fighting piracy in Washington, often holding private movie screenings of soon-to-be-released titles for Capitol Hill staffers at the studios' plush theater just a few blocks from the White House.

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One Osaka project, to build a Universal Studios theme park, has been dogged by allegations that the city has been helping one of its private-sector partners, Sumitomo Metal Industries, to avoid the cost of cleaning up the contaminated land on which the park is to be built.

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