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Museum of the Moving Image
The best film location in Queens is a building that shows you how film locations are made. The Museum of the Moving Image sits inside one of the original 1920 buildings of the Kaufman Astoria Studios complex — Paramount’s old eastern studio, where the Marx Brothers shot their first talkies — and it’s the rare…
Steiner Studios
Full disclosure, hunter: the old version of this post was describing a completely different studio. Everything it said — the 1920 build, Paramount’s original home, Sesame Street, the landmark status, the white gate on 35th Avenue — belongs to Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. This is the correction, and it’s a good story on its…
Kaufman Astoria Studios
If Steiner Studios is New York’s modern studio city, Kaufman Astoria is its founding myth. This is where it started: the eastern home of Paramount Pictures, opened in 1920 when the movies belonged to New York, later an Army film factory, then the rescued landmark behind Sesame Street, Goodfellas, and Orange Is the New Black.…
NBC Studios
Some studios you visit. This one you ride — on cables. Deep inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza sits Studio 8H, the home of Saturday Night Live, and it is literally floating: the studio’s walls, floor, and ceiling were built as assemblies suspended on heavy steel cables and springs, insulated from the building’s frame so the rumble…
