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Historic film studio heritage
The film studio industry began in Culver City in 1918 with Thomas Ince's Triangle Motion Picture Company studio, followed by MGM's arrival in 1924 and decades of golden-age filmmaking.
Thomas Ince constructed the first studio in Culver City in 1918 for the Triangle Motion Picture Company. Six years later, in 1924, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took over the Triangle studio complex, establishing what would become the city's defining presence for the next six decades. MGM transformed the lot into a major production facility, with multiple sound stages and backlots.
MGM remained the dominant force in Culver City until 1986. During that 62-year span, the studio lot was where countless films and television shows were produced, making the city synonymous with Hollywood's golden age. In 1991, Sony Pictures subsidiaries Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures relocated to the former MGM lot, which became Sony Pictures Studios, continuing the tradition of sound stages and film production on the same ground where MGM built its legacy.
For Culver City families, the studio heritage represents generations of economic foundation and community identity. Life insurance planning recognizes that same foundation—the stable income and security that makes a family's life possible. A term policy sized to your mortgage and your dependents' years at home serves the same purpose: protecting the life you've built and the people who count on it.