Televisa San Ángel (originally Estudios y Laboratorios San Ángel, S.A.) is a
film
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and
television studio
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located in
Mexico City
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. It was originally built by
Jorge Stahl as a motion picture studio, and in the 1970s would be sold to the
Azcárraga family, which, through ownership of the
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
networks, continues to own the studios. It is the headquarters facility of the
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) is an entertainment educational institution in Mexico run by that country's major media conglomerate, Televisa. Located at the company's facilities in the San Ángel neighborhood of Mexico City, the sch ...
(CEA) and the
Videocine
Videocine Entretenimiento is a Mexican film company, created and owned by TelevisaUnivision under its Televisa Cine brand. It is focused mainly on distributing and producing films for the Mexican market, while also distributing international films ...
(formerly Televicine) motion picture production and distribution company. The network's Centro de Post Produccion is also housed at San Ángel. Moreover, it is best known as a motion picture and television studio. It is the oldest movie and television production facility in Mexico and the most famous
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
studio facility in Latin America. It was one of the four main Mexican film studios along with
Estudios Churubusco
Estudios Churubusco is one of the oldest and largest movie studios in Mexico. It is located in the Churubusco neighborhood of Mexico City.
History
It was inaugurated in 1945 after a 1943 agreement between RKO and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta ( ...
,
Estudios América
Estudios América ( en, America Studios) was a Mexican film studio and production company which grew to prominence producing films for Antonio Aguilar, Gaspar Henaine, María Elena Velasco, and Vicente Fernández. It was one of the four main film ...
, and
Estudios Tepeyac.
History
Televisa San Ángel is one of two surviving motion picture studios in Mexico. The other,
Estudios Churubusco Azteca, had been cofounded by, ironically, Televisa San Ángel's current owners. The studio had been built by Jorge Stahl as a production facility; the earliest Mexican movie to credited with being filmed at San Ángel is ''
Mi campeón
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Filmography Director
*1928: '' El Destino''
*1933: '' Profanación''
*193 ...
,'' released in 1952. At least 60 different motion pictures would be produced at the studio until 1969. In 1968, a new network,
Television Independiente de Mexico
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(TIM) was launched from the San Ángel studios. Ownership of the studios was passed onto the
Azcarraga family when TIM and
Telesistema Mexicano
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merged to become Televisa in 1973; under Televisa's watch, the studio became a leading production facility in Mexico. In 1979, Televisa's Televicine (now Videocine) motion picture unit was established; at the same time the network's
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) is an entertainment educational institution in Mexico run by that country's major media conglomerate, Televisa. Located at the company's facilities in the San Ángel neighborhood of Mexico City, the sch ...
was set up at the studio.
Mexico's first electronic
character generator
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was installed at Televisa San Ángel in 1980; it would be replaced in 1987 by a Chyron machine. When the
1985 Mexico City earthquake struck down Televisa's Chapultepec studios, two programs that had originated there, ''
En familia con Chabelo'' and ''
Siempre en Domingo
''Siempre en Domingo'' (translated ''Always on Sunday'') is a Mexican variety show created and hosted by Raúl Velasco. The show aired on Televisa from December 14, 1969 until April 19, 1998 when Velasco retired.
''Siempre en Domingo'' became one ...
'', moved production permanently to Televisa San Ángel. Many Televisa contract players who had worked at Chapultepec began to work at San Ángel at this time. Several of them have worked at the studios in both the pre-Televisa and modern eras of the facility.
The Facility
Televisa San Ángel is divided into 16 sound stages known as "Foros". As of 2013, all of them had converted into
high definition. Each sound stage measures 900 square meters (9,687 square feet). The Centro de Post Produccion is the most advanced post-production facility of its kind in the world, and contains 10 editing stations. There is a wide assortment of microphones at San Ángel, including
lavalier,
boom
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,
handheld
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and
headset microphones, most of them wireless. Most telenovelas produced at the studio use boom and lavalier microphones. An average of 15 telenovelas and several other television series, not to mention a handful of theatrical movie releases are produced at San Ángel every year. Each studio contains three cameras a laptop computer. Televisa San Ángel also contains five audio recording studios and three mixing suites.
Thirty different producers who have been with Televisa for years have offices at San Ángel. These include
Andre Barren Díaz,
Pedro Damián
Pedro Muñoz Romero (born 29 November 1952), known as Pedro Damián, is a Mexican actor, television producer and director, executive producer of popular teen telenovelas, ''Clase 406, Lola, Erase Una Vez, Mis XV,'' ''Rebelde, Like La Leyenda ...
,
Guillermo del Bosque,
Luis de Llano Macedo
Luis de Llano Macedo (born June 9, 1945) is a Mexican TV and musical producer.
History
Born in Mexico City in 1945, he is the son of television producer Luis de Llano Palmer and actress Rita Macedo.Andrew Paxman, Claudia Fernández (2013). ''El ...
,
Carla Estrada
Carla Estrada (born Carla Patricia Estrada Guitrón on March 11, 1956 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico) is a Mexican television producer, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.
Biography
In 2005, the Mexican government decided t ...
,
Emilio Larrosa
Emilio Larrosa (born Emilio Larrosa Irigoyen in Mexico) is a Mexican producer who has produced telenovelas and soap operas for Televisa.
Filmography
Awards and nominations Premios TVyNovelas
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,
Chabelo
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,
Rosy Ocampo
Rosy Ocampo (born on November 11, 1959 in México City, D.F., México) is a Mexican
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,
Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo
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He is the son of actors, the Cuban Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo and Mexican Lupita Pallás, and has appe ...
,
Juan Osorio
Juan Manuel Osorio Ortiz (born June 24, 1957, in Toluca de Lerdo, Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela
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,
Angelí Nesma Medina,
Nicandro Díaz González,
Salvador Mejía Alexandre,
Carmen Amendáriz, and
Enrique Segoviano
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.
Televisa San Ángel's main entrance plaza, Plaza Televisa, is dedicated to the producers, directors, actors and other personnel who have been with Televisa, off and on, for at least 30 years total. Plaques at Plaza Televisa honor many of these personnel. Most of the honored personnel are famous, including many actors as well as some of the aforementioned producers.
Films shot at Estudios San Ángel (selected)
*''
Se los chupó la bruja
''Se los chupó la bruja'' ("The Witch Suckled Them") is a 1958 Mexican horror comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador and starring the double act Viruta y Capulina (Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine), Sonia Furió, and Octávio Arias.
Plot
...
'' (1958), starring
Viruta y Capulina
Viruta y Capulina ( en, Viruta and Capulina), performed by Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine, were a Mexican double act featured in film, television, theatre, radio, and comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine o ...
*''
A sablazo limpio
''A sablazo limpio'' (A Quick Saber Slash) is a 1958 Mexican historical-comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine as the double act Viruta y Capulina, and Lucho Gatica with Carmela Rey. Set dur ...
'' (1958), starring
Viruta y Capulina
Viruta y Capulina ( en, Viruta and Capulina), performed by Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine, were a Mexican double act featured in film, television, theatre, radio, and comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine o ...
*''
La Valentina'' (1966), starring
María Félix
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s an ...
and
Lalo González "Piporro"
*"
Cómplices Al Rescate
''Cómplices Al Rescate'' (English title: ''Accomplices to the Rescue'') is a Mexican children's-teen telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. It premiered on January 7, 2002, and ended on July 12, 2002.
Belinda starred as child protagoni ...
(2002) starring
Belinda
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and
Daniela Luján
Daniela Luján (; born Daniela Barrios Rodriguez, 5 April 1988) is a Mexican pop singer and actress. She is considered the "Queen of Telenovelas for Children" for having starred in telenovelas of world success, being: Luz Clarita and El diario ...
References
External links
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Television studios
Mexican film studios
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Mass media in Mexico City
Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City