Epinay Studios

The early Eclair studio at Epinay

The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It was a complex with two distinct and separate structures on forty acres of land.

The launch of the Cité du Cinéma in 2012, also in Seine-Saint-Denis, greatly slowed down interest in the Épinay studios. ^[1]

History

The property was originally the residence of French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède, and sometime after his death in 1825 it was purchased by the Éclair company. ^[2] The earliest of its two structures was built in 1902 by Éclair. ^[3] A second studio was controlled by the French subsidiary of the German company Tobis Film. These were converted for sound in February 1929. ^[4] The same year the other studio was acquired by Pathé-Natan.

References

1. Julien (2013-06-27). "Quel avenir pour les studios d'Épinay ? -" (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
2. ""The Moving Picture World"", “Visit to the Great Studios”, p. 2-3, 12 July 1913
3. Crisp p.95
4. Crisp p.103

Bibliography

• Crisp, C.G. The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press, 1993