Kaufman Astoria Studios

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The Kaufman Astoria Studios is located in Queens, New York, and home to productions like Sesame Street, 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.

In the seventies, the studio received national landmark status. Other motion pictures filmed there included the musicals Hair and The Wiz, and Brian De Palma's masterpiece, Carlito's Way. In the early eighties, The Jacksons' music video, Torture, was filmed there as well.

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• "Traveling Pat", My Day On 'The Street', 2005.