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Which independent film company, founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith, was the first major studio controlled by artists rather than businessmen?

Answer: United Artists — United Artists was founded as a distribution company for independent producers, with Pickford famously declaring 'the lunatics have taken over the asylum.'

United Artists was founded as a distribution company for independent producers, with Pickford famously declaring 'the lunatics have taken over the asylum.'

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