Castle Films

Castle obtained home-movie rights to cartoons from several animation studios, including Terrytoons (1938) and Ub Iwerks (1941).

During World War II it produced numerous documentary and training films for the U.S. armed services.

The perennial in this category was The Night Before Christmas, a live-action dramatization of the poem; this 1946 release remained in print for 26 years.

The merger with Universal also brought to Castle the cartoons of Walter Lantz Productions with Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Oswald Rabbit, and Chilly Willy.

When Universal was purchased by MCA Inc. in 1962, Castle also gained non-theatrical access to the pre-1950 Paramount Pictures sound feature films owned by MCA TV division, releasing sequences from Cecil B. DeMille's spectaculars and Marx Brothers comedies, among other Paramount titles.