Chelsea Studios is a television studio

Television studio

A television studio is an installation in which a video productions take place, either for the recording of live television to video tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production. The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the...

 and sound stage

Sound stage

In common usage, a sound stage is a soundproof, hangar-like structure, building, or room, used for the production of theatrical filmmaking and television production, usually located on a secure movie studio property.-Overview:...

 at 221 West 26th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City

New York City

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History

The building was originally an armory

Armory (military)

An armory or armoury is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, issued to authorized users, or any combination of those...

 that was home to Ninth Mounted Calvary which moved to 14th Street in 1914.

Adolph Zukor

Adolph Zukor

Adolph Zukor , born Adolph Cukor, was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.-Early life:...

 turned it into a studio for the Famous Players Film Company. Among films produced there was An American Citizen and That Man from Mexico starring John Barrymore

John Barrymore

John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

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In the 1950s Himan Brown

Himan Brown

Himan Brown , also known as Hi Brown and Mende Brown, was an American producer of radio programs. Producing for the major radio networks and also for syndication, Brown worked with such actors as Helen Hayes, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles while creating...

 bought the studio and gutted it to create two sound stages.

It would later be called the Production-Center Studios. It is currently owned by All Mobile Video

All Mobile Video

All Mobile Video is a business owned by the Duke family that owns sound stages and offers outside broadcasting services in New York City.Its current president is Eric Duke.In 2001 it acquired the sound stages of Unitel Video for $26 million....

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Movies

• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• BUtterfield 8
  BUtterfield 8
  BUtterfield 8 is a 1960 Metrocolor drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor, then 28 years old, won an Academy Award for her performance...
  
  (1960)
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Long Day's Journey into Night (1962 film)
  Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1962 film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Ely Landau with Joseph E. Levine and Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. as executive producers. The screenplay was by Eugene O'Neill, the music score by André Previn and the...
  
  (1961)
• You're A Big Boy Now
  You're a Big Boy Now
  You're a Big Boy Now is a 1966 film with Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris and Karen Black, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on a 1963 novel, also titled You're a Big Boy Now, by David Benedictus....
  
  (1967)
• The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925...
  
  (1968)
• The Producers
  The Producers (1968 film)
  The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks. The film is set in the late 1960s and it tells the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who want to produce a sure-fire Broadway flop...
  
  (1968)
• The Boys in the Band
  The Boys in the Band
  The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his Off Broadway play of the same title, Crowley penned a sequel to the play years later entitled The Men From The Boys...
  
  (1970)
• The Anderson Tapes
  The Anderson Tapes
  The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime film. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, and comedian Alan King. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a best-selling 1970 novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders...
  
  (1971)

TV shows

• Sergeant Bilko
• Show of the Week (CBS)
• The Patty Duke Show
  The Patty Duke Show
  The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke...
  
  
• Inner Sanctum
• The Honeymooners
  The Honeymooners
  The Honeymooners is an American situation comedy television show, based on a recurring 1951–'55 sketch of the same name. It originally aired on the DuMont network's Cavalcade of Stars and subsequently on the CBS network's The Jackie Gleason Show hosted by Jackie Gleason, and filmed before a live...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  (1968–1988)
• Search for Tomorrow
  Search for Tomorrow
  Search for Tomorrow is an American soap opera which premiered on September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS to NBC on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode aired on December 26, 1986, a run of thirty-five years. At the time of its final broadcast it was the...
  
  (1976–1977)
• Ricki Lake
  Ricki Lake (talk show)
  Ricki Lake was the first daytime tabloid talk show hosted by American actress Ricki Lake.The show specialized in sensationalist topics involving invited guests and incorporated questions and comments from a studio audience...
  
  (1993-2004)
• Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego
  Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (game show)
  -Original music and theme song:All of the music on the series was vocal music, arranged and performed by the a capella group, Rockapella. The music package included a popular theme song, and many short signature stings, such as "Let's Get Packing" when the contestant won the grand prize...
  
  (1991-1992)
• Judge Hatchett
  Judge Hatchett
  Judge Hatchett is a nationally-syndicated American television program produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. It starred The Honorable Glenda Hatchett and was modeled after other "court shows" such as Judge Judy and the long running The People's Court, as well as containing elements...
  
  (1999-2008)
• The Wendy Williams Show
  The Wendy Williams Show
  The Wendy Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Wendy Williams that premiered on July 14, 2008, as six-week sneak peek, in Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. The test run was picked up for a full season that began its run on July 13, 2009 in over 70% of the country in...
  
  (in 2008)
• Martha
  Martha (TV series)
  Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, is an American, weekday one-hour talk show hosted by Martha Stewart. Previously airing in first-run syndication, the show began exclusively airing on cable network Hallmark Channel since September 13, 2010.-History:The program originally debuted on...
  
  
• The Tyra Banks Show
  The Tyra Banks Show
  The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. The last new episode aired on Friday, May 28, 2010.-2005-2009: Syndication:...
  
  
• Stump the Schwab
  Stump the Schwab
  Stump the Schwab is an American game show that aired on ESPN Classic . The show ran from July 8, 2004 to September 29, 2006 and featured three contestants trying to stump Howie Schwab, who was the first statistician ESPN ever had. Stuart Scott was the show's host...
  
  (2003-2005)

External links

• All Mobile Video Chelsea

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