2. The mechanics of those movies, editing, etc. may have been done there but mostly it was filmed on location. I saw the sets for "The earth to the moon" and that was before the show actually aired on HBO, but, never a time when anything was happening. Always a sound stage with semi darkness and no activity. Of all the things mentioned only MMC had any length of exposure and yet, no matter when you went there was nothing going on in the sound stage. I saw it a number of times and never saw anything other then the same set. I did see some new stuff for an award show that was hosted by Ed McMahon. However, it really wasn't a sparkling resume that most studios would be able to promote. I even remember when they changed the internal promotional sets from "The Lottery" to "Dalmatians" to Haunted Mansion. Still not enough big things to give it a lot of credibility. I think the biggest line used to be at the end when there was a life size version of the Tim Taylor back yard fence complete with the top half of Wilson's head peaking over the top. Everyone wanted a picture of themselves with that.
It was much better back then, but, it still wasn't great compared to other back lots and studio tours. With all the trips I took there you would think that by just plain default, something would have actually been in production while I was there. But, it never happened. Just because part of the production was handled in Florida, doesn't mean that many of those actual "stars" were ever there for any filming. I've never even seen still pictures of those productions in progress, in Florida, and you would think that there would be a few floating about.