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
Tsen rank Tsen rank In mathematics, the Tsen rank of a field describes conditions under which a system of polynomial equations must have a solution in the field. The concept is named for C. C. Tsen, who introduced their study in 1936. We consider a system of "m" polynomial equations in "n" variables over a field "F". Assume that the equations all have constant term zero, so that (0, 0, ... ,0) is a common solution. We say that "F" is a T-field if every such system, of degrees "d", ..., "d" has a common non-zero solution whenever The "Tsen rank" of