UNIVERSAL CITY is over the hill in back of Hollywood and spreads itself
out part of Lankershim Valley. Not only has Universal many companies of
their own at work constantly, but many independent producers lease stage
and office space there.
There are eight closed stages of massive proportion that are built closely
together. The dressing rooms are built in a row in back of the first dark
stage. Scattered about the lot are small buildings for the independent companies'
offices. The property room adjoins the first stage and occupies the same
amount of space as the stage. The carpenter shop is a long building at the
back of the lot adjoining the electric generating house.
Stretching back a mile from the front lot the open sets and streets are
to be seen dotting the landscape. On this big "back ranch," as
it is called by Universalites, the huge Monte Carlo set of Eric von Stroheim's
picture, "Foolish Wives," was built there. |