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CBS Studio Center Tour

Bob plays hooky and takes us on a tour of the nearby CBS Studio Center, the first of the great big movie lots that gave Studio City its name.
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" Right now that's me. Michael possibly as president of the CBS studio center just a mile away from our house but you wouldn't know it from the background right directly to Bob good to see -- great to have you on the show. Where are we right now. You're on the New York street -- studio center. And the New York street is -- something that's been here for a long long time it's been here since 1994 and it's. This jury cycle through where the cycles that you're kidding this is the street really is this hawkish line up the street on at all with time -- And this was all built just for the -- yes it was quite what does it cost to do some like this cost about two million dollars to build a street like this. These are real trees aren't you at least the -- the real leaves are phony and I guess I could take that from home where you -- take it with aren't going to fit on the plane meeting held you've got a cycle shop that's when my favorite sports right here terrific so. Are we in production right now or is it used on your lawn care how much used you make got a well it we use it from around. September through the end of April this week -- last show. -- and they've been shooting the show me for what eight years yes for a spectacular that we can't knock on the door behind some of the great things votes. Now it must be wonderful to have you know August. 360 varieties of sunshine here in California that you can just do all these programs without any kind of an -- not yet. Sometimes is a problem those -- some of the shows required. That we have us us the snowstorms or rain secrets. But we've taken care of that Bob if you want -- festering. I'd just ask for a like I just like that. I'm Michael some of these buildings on the lot here look like early California residential buildings that went behind -- now. Yeah a little ranch style. These are two of the original style stages in 1928. Now who has worked in here in 1928 studio city false silent films are what the keystone cops WC fields Charlie Chaplin bing Crosby. And they were doing early westerns right in the city just ran out into the desert far from here yet right after max and became republic pictures -- that all the -- John Wayne. And in the sixties we did rawhide gunsmoke and big -- So how many of these huge buildings are in existence right now. Right now we have nineteen -- while and all of you have the same original design with the bow string trusses right. Basic design is always the same. That's not broken topics sure to that you don't have any interruptions but is it true that the early ones didn't have walls that just didn't canvassers and again basically are no hard walls in the early stages over there were campuses say a word about sound and he didn't need our wall. Wow Mac senate bungalow and he's the famous producer that started the whole keystone cops right yes in 1928 this was lettuce field. In the studio camp was born right obelisk and they employ just about everybody in the area and this is really. We're studio city as a town got its origins yet original pictures studio city it's right on the property elevenths well what else should we look at. Let's go take a look at one of the things okay. Obvious is that you know when you're outside you don't get a sense of the scale. This tell you one credit what's the actual size of the building. This is about a hundred by 200 for its case and this is 1922. Technology up there and -- Vote trusses were called -- during and this hundred's bridge technology. And resistant. And it would be idea here was to do it is after all it's being corrupted by islanders were built as much there's and it's possible that the -- and he didn't you earlier the wrong side of the show was done and -- the -- heights. And now we're doing with the variety called doctor. Do it."

" So quietly building. Additional data on top of the hour we'll be -- that holds about Schultz and you Hanson's -- a lot of and -- and electronics. And so puppeteers are going to work underneath the states and into -- work that they're basically building this visit Guatemala. Haven't where that. 500 square what platform on etiquette works for all about reading this -- Out here. They've got plants and meet standards like here there at the architect kalman art director decides to and they built. We can either build here on this case -- built. And we knew that ultimately. -- All the all the firepower and all of -- partners -- Is that this will be used for how long it's probably did you report findings in the think about maybe too much different. And that's."

" Done and they get a part -- history and next month. That's a look at the suburbs and yet."

" And so you've got how many of these sound stages. Yet nineteen sound stages its students in Iraq all of that activity at the single guy and this one and in Boston commons and third rock from the sun and Dave's world yeah. Just what about that you -- little buildings like the brick and keep building up a building that building behind us was use an episode -- the that was the soup Nazi skits. The famous soup Nazi UK and here -- my -- thirty somethings house in the house grace under fire yourself so originally that that's been here for awhile it's been here thirty kilometers ten years the right right right. -- number -- DreamWorks TV yeah this is -- residential streets some of the some of the bungalows here's some of the houses -- sets and some of them are actually offices so they're not going to waste when -- when they're not being used for a TV show production you've actually an office space and some of the -- to be a lot we try to utilize all the space has been speaking now do you buy them prefab under do you -- moments later Saddam we build on -- we have trucked in and we just assembled here."

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