Old Warner Brothers Studios
- Year
- 1923
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Sunset Bronson Studios complex on Sunset Boulevard began as the Old Warner Brothers Studio, whose main building went up in 1919 and where The Jazz Singer, the first talking feature film, was shot in 1927. The lot's Neoclassical Executive Office Building has anchored a site that later carried KTLA Television, Paramount Pictures, Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters, and Tribune Company, before Hudson Pacific Properties renamed it Sunset Bronson Studios in 2008.
the building
A bowling alley interlude. During a fallow stretch in the 1940s and '50s, the main building fronting Sunset Boulevard was repurposed as a bowling alley before the lot was split between KTLA television and Paramount Pictures in the mid-1950s.
the style
The Executive Office Building carries a formal Neoclassical facade, a dignified front for what was then a fast-growing motion-picture business establishing itself as a serious industry.
More on Neoclassicalsignificance
The site was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1977 for its role in motion-picture history, and the Executive Office Building was separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
nearby
- Earl Carroll Theatre
- Hollywood Western Building
- The Bricker Building
- Hollywood Studio Club
- Guaranty Building
- Hollywood Plaza Hotel