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RKO Forty Acres
RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot owned by RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, located in Culver City, California. Best known as Forty Acres, or "the back forty",〔"Back 40" is a term used colloquially in America to describe a parcel of land, specifically, forty acres (16.2 ha) or one sixteenth of a section, constituting the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed ("back 40", "front 40"); "back 40" also refers to an undeveloped plot of land (as on a farm, ranch, etc.) of unspecified size. Further reading: Public Land Survey System〕 it had other names such as "Desilu Culver",〔 (Amazon.com )〕 the "RKO backlot" and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch" depending on which studio owned the property at the time. For nearly fifty years it was known for its outdoor full-scale sets such as Western Street and Atlanta Street or Main Street and was used in films like ''King Kong'' (1933) and ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), and television shows like ''Bonanza'' and ''Star Trek''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Radok Corporation, (©1998 – 2003) )〕 It was situated on a triangular parcel of land that measured ,〔 (Burroughs Bulletin )〕 located a few blocks from RKO (now "The Culver Studios")〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Culver Studios (©2006) )〕 which was situated to the west. It was bounded by Higuera Street to the north, West Jefferson Boulevard, Ballona Creek and Culver City Park to the south and Lucerne Avenue to the west. In 1976 it was razed for re-development and is known today as the southern expansion of the Hayden Industrial Tract.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wikimapia.org (2006) )〕 A number of the buildings in the industrial park have been converted to television studios. One of the shows produced at the park is ''Hell's Kitchen''.
== History ==
The property on which the backlot was located was originally intended to be a lease for Cecil B. DeMille’s production of the 1927 film ''The King of Kings''.〔 On it he constructed the historical City of Jerusalem, which remained for the RKO production of ''King Kong'' in 1933. By then it was known as Forty Acres and owned by RKO Pictures.
In 1935, David O. Selznick leased the property from RKO for his new studio, Selznick International Pictures. For his 1939 production of ''Gone with the Wind'', the plantation Tara, the Atlanta Depot (based on Atlanta's 1853 Union Station), and other Atlanta buildings were constructed on Forty Acres. The depot and many of the Atlanta buildings became permanent fixtures on the property until its final days, while the set of Tara was sold in 1959 to investors who planned to open a theme park in the Atlanta area (see Tara (plantation)). From 1943 to 1958, a separate part of the 28.5 ac (11.5 ha) known as the African jungle set, located on the opposite side of Ballona Creek, was used extensively for the ''Tarzan'' series by RKO, and later for ''The Adventures of Jim Bowie'' television series by Desilu.〔 Following years of turnovers by several owners, including Howard Hughes, the backlot was practically deserted and cinematic productions declined. It was purchased in 1957 by Desilu with the intention of filming for the burgeoning television industry.
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