AKA: Famous Players Film Company, Paramount Pictures Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1914

West 6th Street and South Hill Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014

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In 2010, Paramount Pictures, which began as Adolph Zukor's (1873-1976) Famous Players Film Company (founded 05/1912), was the oldest film studio in Hollywood. Paramount Pictures and its antecedent companies have existed on Melrose Avenue since approximately 1914; in 1916, Zukor merged his company with Jesse L. Lasky's (1880-1958) Lasky Feature Show Company film studio and William W. Hodkinson's (1881-1971) Paramount Pictures, the first national film distribution company, to create Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.

PCAD id: 6911