JC Studios was a film and television studio located at 1268 East 14th Street in the

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section of Brooklyn,

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. The land on which the studio buildings were situated can trace its motion picture history back to around 1903, when it served as a studio and backlot for

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and

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, its first Vitagraph girl. Vitagraph's main Brooklyn facility was located across East 14th Street on property occupied by the Shulamith School for Girls until 2010. In 2017 the site became an eight-story, 300-unit apartment building.

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built the main studio, bordering on Locust Avenue, in 1936 for use as a short-subject production facility.

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bought the site in 1951 from Warner Brothers and converted the studio into a state-of-the-art color broadcasting facility.

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was the star of the first NBC show from what was dubbed Brooklyn Studio I, ''Satins and Spurs'' on 12 September 1954. Notable television shows originating at JC Studios while under NBC ownership include ''

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'' with Mary Martin, the ''

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'', ''Sing Along with Mitch'' starring

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, ''A Night to Remember'', '' Hullabaloo'', ''The

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Show'', ''

Tic Tac Dough ''Tic-Tac-Dough'' is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, ''X'' or ''O'', on the board. Three versions were produ ...

'' and three 1976 episodes of ''

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''. In 1956, NBC produced its famous “The

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Aqua Spectacle” here. The swimming pool constructed for the show was hidden under the floor of Studio I. JC Studios played host to a number of popular and long-lasting television shows, ''

The Cosby Show ''The Cosby Show'' is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, which aired Thursday nights for eight seasons on NBC between September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on an upper middle-class African ...

'', '' Another World'', and ''

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'' which was canceled by CBS in December 2009. The final episode was taped on 23 June 2010 and aired on 17 September 2010.De Meglio, Michèle, “ ‘As The World Turns’ to leave Brooklyn”, ''

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'', December 11, 2009. In 2014 JC Studios closed. Today OHEL Children's Home and Family Services is in the former Brooklyn Studio I. In 2019 Brooklyn Studio II, opened by

on November 29, 1956 was converted to a self-storage facility.

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Brooklyn Eagle :''This article covers both the historical newspaper (1841–1955, 1960–1963), as well as an unrelated new Brooklyn Daily Eagle starting 1996 published currently'' The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''King ...

23 May 1936, page 21 (Studio building history) *

03 October 1951, page 1 (

purchase of studio building)
NBC Studio History Part II
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