What is Associated Artists Productions?
{{Infobox company | name = Associated Artists Productions, Inc. | logo = Associated Artists Productions logo.png | logo_size = 250px | logo_caption = The a.a.p. logo, as seen in the end of many ''[[Popeye the Sailor (film series)|Popeye]]'' cartoons. | type = Private | fate = Folded into [[United Artists]] | former_names = Associated Artists (1948–1951)<br>PRM, Inc. (1954–1956)<br>Associated Artists Productions, Inc. (1956–1958)<br>United Artists Associated (1958–1968) | founder = [[Eliot Hyman]] | foundation = 1948 (first incarnation)<ref name=aap>{{cite magazine|title=Hyman Returns to Distrib Business, Reactivates Associated Artist Org|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liEEAAAAMBAJ&q=Billboard%20(August%2028%2C%201954)%2C%20p.%206&pg=PA6|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=August 28, 1954|location=New York City|pages=6}}</ref><br>1954 (second incarnation) | defunct = October 1958 (as Associated Artists Productions)<br>1968 (as United Artists Associated) | location_city = [[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]] | location_country = [[United States]] | industry = [[broadcast syndication|Television syndication]] | products = Television packages of feature films and theatrical short subjects and cartoons | owner = Eliot Hyman (1948–1951; 1954–1958) | parent = Independent (1948–1951, 1954–1958)<br>[[United Artists]] (1958–1968) | subsid = {{unbulleted list|a.a.p. Records, Inc.}} }} '''Associated Artists Productions, Inc.''' ('''a.a.p.''')<ref>{{cite court|litigants=Alcott v. Hyman|volume=208|reporter=A.2d|opinion=501|year=1965|url=http://content.lawyerlinks.com/library/sec/cases/pdfs/208_A2d_501.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite court|litigants=Fleischer v. Phillips|volume=264|reporter=F.2d|opinion=515|year=1959|url=http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/264/264.F2d.515.58.25152.html}}</ref> later known as '''United Artists Associated ''' was an American distributor of theatrical [[feature movies]] and [[subjects]] for [[television]]. Through a series of acquisitions, Associated Artists