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CFI (Consolidated Film Industries) (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / West Hollywood / Los Angeles, California
 lab, historical layer / disappeared object

Film Lab, now demolished.

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company, and was one of the leading film laboratory in the Los Angeles area for many decades. CFI processed negatives and made prints for motion pictures and television. The company or its employees received many Academy Awards for scientific or technical achievements.

Consolidated Film Industries, Inc. was the largest concern of its kind, and was at one time the largest purchaser of motion picture film in the world. The business was built up on the sound foundation of quality and service at a price, in most instances, below the motion picture producer's own laboratory cost. This low price made possible through the Company's efficient and large scale operations.

Consolidated Film Industries acquired Prizmacolor in 1928, and was acquired by Technicolor, Inc. in 2000. Over time Technicolor operated both the Universal City lab and CFI's lab in Hollywood, but as demand decreased, the decision was made to shut down CFI.

CFI's founder, Herbert Yates, merged his company with a number of small "Poverty Row" Studios in the 1930s, including Monogram, and Mascot, creating Republic Pictures (where John Wayne made most of his early movies) at the old Mack Sennett studio in Studio City. Today that lot is CBS Studio Center, where many sitcoms are shot.
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Coordinates:   34°5'17"N   118°20'5"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago