First National Pictures Studios (Burbank, California) | place with historical importance, film/video production studio/facility

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

The first purposely built movie studio in "Hollywood," it was built by First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theater owners in the United States. The company was formed in 1924 and the studio began construction in March of 1926 with its first production beginning only 3 month later. The original studio consisted of 4 stages, a few buildings built on a 68 acre parcel of land once owned by Luther Burbank.

Warner Bros.acquired the site in 1928 giving them 4 studio properties: their original lot on Sunset Blvd., two as a result of their acquisition of Vitagraph (one in east Hollywood, and one in Flatbush, New York), and the new Burbank property.

After Warner Bros. purchased the property, expansion continued at a frenzied pace with the addition of several sound stages and Hollywood's first permanent backlot.

In 1929 Warner Bros. purchased adjacent property to expand the backlot, and a 30 acre parcel up on Hollywood Way that today is known as Warner Ranch. In 1931 they bought Teddington Studios in London.