KAUFMAN ASTORIA STUDIOS

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'', 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 facility close to the Broadway theatre district. Many features and short subjects were filmed here between 1928 and 1933. The two most famous movies to be shot here in that period are ''The Cocoanuts'' (1929) and ''Animal Crackers'' (1930), the first two Marx Brothers films.
Other motion pictures filmed there included the musicals ''Hair'' and ''The Wiz'', and tge film Carlito's Way. In the early eighties, The Jacksons' music video, ''Torture'', was filmed there as well.

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