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Geva Films (, ''Sirtei Geva''), or the Geva film studio and laboratory was one of the first

film studio A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films. Today, studios are mostly financing and distribution entities. In addition, they may have their own studio facility or facilities; how ...

s in

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. It was established in 1949 in the city of

Givatayim Givatayim () is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah. In it had a population of . The name of the city comes from the "two hills" on w ...

near

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

by , Yitzhak Agadati and Yosef Navon. It produced newsreels for cinemas and short films, as well as

feature film A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (Film, motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole present ...

s. Its building was demolished in September 2011 and two residential towers (Geva Towers ()) were built in its place.

Produced films

* 1956 – '' Tale of A Taxi'', comedy, black-and-white * 1959 – '' Pillar of Fire'' * 1960 – '' I Like Mike'' * 1963 – '' What a Gang'' * 1963 – ''

El Dorado El Dorado () is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions � ...

'' * 1964 – '' Eight in Pursuit of One'' * 1964 – ''

Dalia And The Sailors Dalia And The Sailors () is an Israeli comedy film directed by Menahem Golan and produced by Mordecai Navon.Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 50. It was Menachem Golan's second film.Meir Schnitz ...

'' * 1965 – '' Hole in the Moon'' * 1965 – '' Un soir à Tibériade'' * 1966 – ''

The Flying Matchmaker ''The Flying Matchmaker'' (also: ''Two Kuni Lemel'', ''Shnei Kuni Leml'' or שני קוני למל) is a 1966 Israeli film musical directed by Israel Becker. The film was the first major success on screen for lead actor Mike Burstyn who has a doub ...

'' (''Two Kuni Lemel''), film musical

People

*, a founder * Yitzhak Agadati, a founder, brother of

Baruch Agadati Baruch Agadati (, also Baruch Kaushansky-Agadati; January 8, 1895 – January 18, 1976) was a Russian-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director. Biography Baruch Kaushansky (later Agadati) was bo ...

*Yosef Navon, a founder of the Geva Film Studios, director, cameraman and sound technician *, worked on the Geva Films' newssreels in late 1950s "Alfred Hitchcock's Unknown Cameo Appearance in Jerusalem"
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Haaretz ''Haaretz'' (; originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , , ) is an List of newspapers in Israel, Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. The paper is published in Hebrew lan ...

'' *

Amnon Salomon Amnon Salomon (; April 3, 1940 – October 23, 2011) was an Israeli film cinematographer. He was a recipient of the Ophir Award for cinematography. Biography Salomon was born in Tel Aviv in 1940 to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a Russian-Jewish ...

* Adi Talmor

References

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