Shots of film studios in their early years. 🎥🖤 Pic 1: looking north over First National Studios in Burbank — late 1920s. In 1929, after majority interest was sold to Warner Brothers, it became the home of WB (and still is). Photo from the USC Archives. Pic 2: Goldwyn Studios in Culver City — 1919. The street cutting across the foreground is Washington Blvd. while the other diagonal street beyond the studios is Culver Blvd. Ballona Creek is at the top right identifiable by the trees lining its banks. Photo from the USC Archives. Pic 3: Fox Studios on the SE corner of Sunset and Western — circa 1918. This is where Fox was located before moving out west to where Fox is still located today on Pico. Amazing to see blocks that are still orchards/groves. Photo from the USC Archives. Pic 4: looking south over Hollywood Forever Cemetery towards Brunton Studios — early 1920s. The Brunton lot was bought by Paramount in 1926 and that’s what it’s been ever since. Across Melrose you can see another lot — Clune Studios which is today’s Raleigh Studios. Photo from the USC Archives. Pic 5: opening day of Universal Studios’ state-of-the-art Universal City — 1915. Photo from the Bison Archives.