Vitagraph Studios/Warner Brothers Studio (Los Angeles, California)

 place with historical importance, film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object

1708 Talmadge

The original footprint of the historic Vitagraph Studios when they opened their Hollywood branch. It was a mix of owned and leased land.

American Vitagraph was one of the original and most successful movie production companies. Founded in 1897 by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in Brooklyn, NY. In 1906 they built the first modern movie studio in the US. In 1911 they added a studio in Santa Monica, and a year later moved it to this 29 acre location.

On April 22, 1925 Vitagraph sold their entire company to Warner Brothers, including both their Brooklyn and Hollywood studios. This lot, known as the East Hollywood Annex, was one of 4 Warner lots in the Hollywood area and is notable as the place where "The Jazz Singer" exteriors were shot, the first commercially successful non-silent motion picture. The success of their sound pictures saved Warner Brothers from financial ruin (and obscurity), giving them enough cash to buy First National Pictures (one of the big 5 major studios) and their now famous Burbank studio.

Warner Brothers operated at this location until selling it to ABC as their original network studios in 1948.

Today a smaller portion of the original studio is part of the Disney Empire and is operated as Disney's Prospect Studios.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitagraph_Studios
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Brothers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Studios