Epinay Studios
The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It is a complex with two distinct and separate structures on forty acres of land.
The launch of the Cité du Cinéma in 2012, also in Seine-Saint-Denis, greatly slowed down interest in the Épinay studios.[1]
History
The property was originally the residence of French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède, and sometime after his death in 1825 it was purchased by the Éclair company.[2] The earliest of its two structures was built in 1902 by Éclair.[3] A second studio was controlled by the French subsidiary of the German company Tobis Film. These were converted for sound in February 1929.[4] The same year the other studio was acquired by Pathé-Natan. At the end of October 1914, the movie Le Péché de Satan began filming on the studio grounds.[5]
References
- ↑ Julien (2013-06-27). "Quel avenir pour les studios d'Épinay ? -" (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-07-29. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
- ↑ ""The Moving Picture World"", “Visit to the Great Studios”, pp. 2–3, 12 July 1913
- ↑ Crisp p.95
- ↑ Crisp p.103
- ↑ ""Cinædia"", “Communiqués”, p. 3, 21 October 1930
Bibliography
- Crisp, C.G. The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press, 1993