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The Kaufman Astoria Studios is a film studio located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The studio was constructed for Famous Players–Lasky in 1920, since it was close to Manhattan's Theater District. The property was taken over by real estate developer George S. Kaufman in 1982 and renamed Kaufman Astoria Studios.
The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the American Museum of the Moving Image , and in 1996, opened its permanent exhibition, "Behind the Screen ...
Broadway Stages was founded in 1983 by Tony Argento [4] who turned a rundown movie theatre on Broadway Street in Astoria, Queens into his first soundstage. [5] There he filmed commercials, and music videos for musical artists such as Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, LL Cool-J, Eminem, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Celine Dion, Will Smith, Hall & Oates, [6] TLC, Busta ...
The former RKO Keith's Theater on Hillside Avenue in Richmond Hill. RKO Keith's Theater is a historic RKO Pictures movie theater located at 117-09 Hillside Avenue in the Richmond Hill section of the New York City borough of Queens. It was designed by architect R. Thomas Short and built in 1929 in the Neo-Classical Revival style.
The RKO Keith's Theater was an RKO Pictures movie theater at 135-35 Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb and built in 1928. While the RKO Keith's had a plain three-story facade, its interior was elaborately designed in a Spanish Baroque Revival style. The theater ...
Photo of the theatre's interior in 1959. The Loew's State Theatre was a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in New York City.Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, [1] it opened on August 29, 1921, as part of a 16-story office building for the Loew's Theatres company, with a seating capacity of 3,200 [2] and featuring both vaudeville and films.
The Queens Playhouse, as it was called upon opening in 1972, was founded by Joseph S. Kutrzeba. In 1965, it was originally in a lumberyard in Bayside, Queens, and was the first nonprofit professional resident theater in Queens. [8] In 1972, the theatre became live entertainment from previously being a movie theatre. [9]
The Valencia Theatre (formerly the Loew's Valencia Theatre) is a church building at 165-11 Jamaica Avenue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York. Designed by John Eberson as a movie palace , it opened on January 11, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area.