Qualla: Culver Studios https://qualla.com/culver-studios en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/5/c/culver-studios-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Culver Studios https://qualla.com/culver-studios Culver Studios: Introduction https://qualla.com/culver-studios/ Photo credit Termer, CC BY-SA 3.0. They burned Atlanta to make way for Tara. In 1939, producer David O. Selznick ordered abandoned sets on the Culver Studios backlot set ablaze, filming the inferno for Gone with the Wind's most spectacular sequence. It was a fitting act of creative destruction for a studio that has reinvented itself more times than any other in Hollywood history. Since Thomas H. Ince broke ground here in 1918, the lot has operated under nine different names, sheltered everyone from Cecil B. DeMille to Howard Hughes, and somehow outlasted them all.

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/5/c/culver-studios-wp/9q5c-culver-studios-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Culver Studios: A Mansion for the Movies https://qualla.com/culver-studios/ Photo credit Jengod, CC BY-SA 4.0. Thomas H. Ince wanted to prove that filmmaking deserved respect. In 1918, on land purchased from real estate developer Harry Culver, he commissioned architects Meyer and Holler to build something unprecedented: a Colonial Revival administration building modeled after George Washi...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/5/c/culver-studios-wp/9q5c-culver-studios-the-parade-of-owners.mp3 0:06 3 full Culver Studios: Forty Acres of Make-Believe https://qualla.com/culver-studios/ Photo credit Rclick-wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0. A few blocks from the main lot sat the Back Forty, also known as Forty Acres, a triangular backlot where entire worlds materialized and disappeared. Here construction crews built Tara, the Atlanta Depot, and the burning plantation scenes that required Selznick's calculated arson....

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