Selznick International Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio, founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor John Hay Whitney. In its short life of five years and eleven features, the studio produced two winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture: Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), and a third nominee, A Star Is Born (1937). In 1940, Selznick and the other owners began dissolving the studio for tax purposes, while Selznick formed David O. Selznick Productions at the same studio location. ... David O. Selznick David Oliver Selznick (May 10, 1902–June 22, 1965), was one of the icon Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. ... John Hay Jock Whitney (b. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... Rebecca is a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project. ... DVD cover showing stars Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. ...

Physically, the studio was located on a section of the RKO Radio Pictures lot in Culver City, California. To film the burning of the Atlanta Depot for Gone with the Wind, the standing Great Wall set from RKO's King Kong was redressed and used as a burning building. The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... King Kong battles a pterosaur in the 1933 version Kong from Laurentiiss 1976 remake King Kong and Ann Darrow in the 2005 version of King Kong. ...

The 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. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is an archive at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and other cultural artifacts from the United States, Great Britain, and France. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ...