"This picture gives you a different view
of the facility," wrote Jerry Pronovost.
The U-shaped building at lower left was
Troop Command, the studio's barracks for enlisted personnel.
The studio itself is just above it.
That formal-looking columned entry facing toward Troop Command
opens onto the Main Stage. The command office, once Adolf
Zukor's offices, were at the lower left corner of the studio
building. The Army's primary entry was on the left side of
the studio, along 35th Street.
The buildings on the left above the main
studio building were part of the Army complex. In the
early days of Famous Players-Lasky, this was used for exterior
sets. Today it is the site of the extended stage
facilities of the Kaufman Astoria Studio.
The building to the right of the main
studio, and connected to it by a bridge over the street, was the
laboratory, now the home of the American Museum of the Moving
Image.
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