Kaufman Astoria Studios
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The Kaufman Astoria Studios is located in Queens, New York, and home to productions like Sesame Street, Johnny and the Sprites, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego, The Cosby Show, Swan's Crossing, Law & Order, Million Dollar Password, and Spin City.
The walls of the studio are lined with images of the performers who have worked in the studios, including Milton Berle, George Burns, Bill Cosby, Diana Ross, and Jerry Orbach.
It was originally built by Paramount Pictures in the early days of sound movies to provide the company with a sound-capable facility close to the Broadway theater district. Many features and short subjects were filmed here between 1928 and 1933. The two most famous movies to be shot here during that period are The Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930), the first two Marx Brothers films.
In 1942 the United States Army Signal Corps Army Pictorial Service took over the studio for the making of Army training and indoctrination films until 1971.
Other motion pictures filmed there include the musicals Hair and The Wiz, and the film Carlito's Way. In the early 1980s, The Jacksons' music video Torture was filmed there as well.
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- Traveling Pat, "My Day on 'The Street'," 2005.
