Paramount Pictures Studios

 film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object

3412 36th St, Astoria, NY 11106

Paramount Pictures Studios. Original footprint of what is now Kaufman Astoria Studios.

Originally built in 1920 as Famous Players-Lasky Studio, and when the company changed its name to Paramount Pictures, the studio name was changed as well. In the early days of sound movies it provided the company with a sound-capable facility close to the Broadway theater district. Many features and short subjects were filmed here between 1928 and 1933. The two most famous movies to be shot here during that period are The Coconuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930), the first two Marx Brothers films.

In 1942 the United States Army Signal Corps Army Pictorial Service took over the studio for the making of Army training and indoctrination films until 1971.