Charlie Chaplin Studios, Historic film studio complex in Hollywood, Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin Studios is a historic film studio and building complex in Hollywood, Los Angeles, situated on North La Brea Avenue near Sunset Boulevard. The lot contains several sound stages and cottage-style office buildings spread across a compact site of roughly 2 acres (about 0.8 hectares).
Charlie Chaplin had the studio built in 1917 and used it to produce some of his most famous films, with the last one shot there in 1952. After he left, the property passed through several owners and served as a television and music recording facility before being named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1969.
The La Brea frontage is lined with six English cottage-style buildings, planned by the Milwaukee Building Company and likened to a village street; the arched doorway at 1416 carries a dark plaque with white numerals. The site housed A&M Records from 1966 to 1999, and its Henson years are recalled on a banner for Brian Henson's show "Puppet Up!" above the arch.
The lot sits just south of the southeast corner of La Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, with its frontage along North La Brea. It remains a working film, television and recording facility, so there is no general public access. From the sidewalk, visitors can see the red brick facade, the arched doorway with its "1416" plaque, and the banner above the arch.
The studio's English-cottage buildings along La Brea were moved back 15 feet (4.6 m) in 1928–29 when the avenue was widened, disrupting filming of City Lights. Chaplin's 1918 film How to Make Movies shows the lot's construction in time-lapse.
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