Willat Studio/Fox Studio/Triangle Studio

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The Willat Film Manufacturing Company began putting together this lot in October of 1913, buying a little at a time. Eventually this large studio, at the corner of Main and Linwood, extended 444 feet up Main Street, and 648 feet paralleling Linwood, forming an "L" shape around the already existing World-Peerless Studio.

The studio was owned by Carl A. Willatowski, better know as "Doc" Willat (who, along with his his brother, Irvin, would build a short-lived studio in Culver City, CA. He built two vaulted greenhouse stages and a large laboratory in 1914. He sold his interest to Ad Kessel and Charles Bauman (who already owned several large studios on both coasts). Beginning in 1915 William Fox rented the stages and Triangle Film Corp. (one of the production companies owned by Kessel and Bauman) moved some production to the studio.

After 1917 the studio fell into disrepair but the lab continued to be used by Triangle until taken over by Nicholas Kessel. It was being operated by National-Evans Film Laboratories when is exploded and burned down in 1925.

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