MGM-British Studios Meanwhile, Amalgamated Studios Ltd constructed a large studio on the north side of Elstree Way between 1935 and 1937. A January 1937 deal for eight films to be made for the American studio Columbia Pictures soon collapsed. The company was unable to meet the cost of building work, and sold the facility to the Rank Organisation, which was not interested in using the studios itself, but wanted to stop John Maxwell's rival British International Pictures (BIP) from being able to compete more effectively with its own new Pinewood Studios. During the war, the studios were leased from Rank by the
Mann (military rank) most Nazi Party organizations, the rank of "Mann" held no distinctive insignia. Some groups, however, granted a minor form of rank insignia such as a blank collar patch or simple shoulder board to denote the rank of "Mann". (see right: SS rank insignia pattern from 1933) Even lower ranks, e.g. "Bewerber, Jungmann, Anwärter, Vollanwärter", were established in the mid-1930s as a recruit or candidate position, held by an individual seeking an appointment as a "Mann" in a Nazi Party paramilitary organization. Mann (military rank) Mann (German for "man" or "male"), was a paramilitary rank used by several Nazi Party paramilitary