Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Glendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company shot in and around Glendale and Silverlake for many years.

The Keystone lot

After the bankruptcy, the movie lot in Studio City was sold to Mascot Studios, then Monogram Studios, which eventually became Republic Pictures. The lot was taken over in 1963 by CBS Television (which filmed Gunsmoke and The Wild Wild West there), and from 1985 to 1992 was owned jointly by CBS and Mary Tyler Moore's MTM Enterprises, which produced numerous other successful TV shows. In 1992 CBS bought back MTM's share and the lot was renamed CBS Studio Center. It is still home to numerous television and feature film shoots (including American Gladiators from 1991-1997). It was itself used as the fictional film studio "Sunrise Studios" in the horror film Scream 3.

Related Topics:
Mascot Studios - Monogram Studios - Republic Pictures - 1963 - CBS Television - Gunsmoke - The Wild Wild West - CBS - Mary Tyler Moore - MTM Enterprises - CBS Studio Center - American Gladiators - Scream 3

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