Virtual Tour of the Universal Studios Lot Filmmakers Destination Universal Studios Hollywood

A virtual tour of the historic facades on the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City (Hollywood, Los Angeles) California, U.S.A.
0:41 Psycho House / Bates Motel
1:00 Falls Lake
1:15 New York Street
1:48 Mexican Street
2:07 Log Cabin
2:21 Colonial Street
2:58 Jaws Lake
3:26 Modern New York Street
3:41 Elm Street
3:56 Brownstone Street
4:06 Courthouse Square
4:23 Chicken Ranch
4:35 Central Park
4:47 Denver Street
5:05 European Street
5:42 London - Paris Square
5:53 Wall Street
6:16 Western Street
7:14 Universal Studios Hollywood Front Gate / Universal Studios CityWalk Hollywood
All these areas are available for rent in your next motion picture, television show, music video, or commercial production. Contact Universal Studios Productions Services at [phone] or visit www.universalstudioslot.com/
ABOUT
Universal Studios Lot is a television and film studio complex in Universal City, California. It is the site of Universal Pictures and is owned by Comcast through its wholly-owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The lot comprises 400 acres, which includes more than 30 sound stages and 165 separate structures that can replicate any location in the world.
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HISTORY
On August 15, 1912, Universal officially expanded its operation to the West Coast. It chose a 230-acre ranch across the road from where Mexican General Andre Pico and U.S. Colonel John Fremont signed the Treaty of Cahuenga in 1847. This site was to become “the entertainment center of the world” - Universal City.
On March 15, 1915, Carl Laemmle officially opened the gates of Universal City, the world’s first self-contained community dedicated to making movies. Although the studio formally opened in 1915, film production on the lot began in 1914. Damon and Pythias, co-starring William Worthington and Herbert Rowlinson, was the first picture completed at Universal City.
As movie production at Universal City increased, a steady stream of silent films, including westerns, comedies, and action-adventures, became Universal’s trademark. Laemmle also began inviting visitors to Universal City to observe his movie-making, establishing Universal’s long-standing tradition of welcoming guests to enjoy the magic behind the scenes. However, the Universal tour was temporarily halted in the late 1920s, when “talkies” became the norm and producers demanded a set free of visitor’s noses.
Keywords
Carl Laemmle
Nickelodeon
Silent Movies
Theater
Movie Distribution
Production
Independent Moving Picture Company of America
IMP
Motion Picture Patents Company
Independent Theater Operators
Hiawatha
Longfellow poem
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Rex Motion Pictures
Powers Motion Pictures
Nestor and Champion Films
1313 Mockingbird Lane - The Munsters
Notable films shot on the lot.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
A Beautiful Mind
All That Heaven Allows
Another Part of the Forest
Apollo 13
The Art of Love
The Back Lot Murders
Back to the Future
Balls of Fury
Beethoven
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Beverly Hills Cop III
Big Fat Liar
The Birds
The Blues Brothers
Bruce Almighty
The Burbs
Casper
Cast Away
Changeling
Cloak and Dagger
The Color Purple
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Damon and Pythias
Deep Impact
Desperate Hours
Dick Tracy
Dirty Harry
Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat
Dracula
Earthquake
Evan Almighty
Flags of Our Fathers
Flash Gordon
Fletch Lives
Flower Drum Song
Foolish Wives
Frankenstein
Garfield
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Good German
Gremlins
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Hancock
Harvey
Hindenburg, The
History of the World Part I
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
House of 1000 Corpses
Hulk
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Idlewild
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Italian Job
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Jaws: The Revenge
Jurassic Park
Land of the Lost
Leave it to Beaver
Ma and Pa Kettle
Mallrats
Meet the Fockers
Mission Impossible III
The Mississippi Gambler
Moonwalker
Nacho Libre
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Newsies
Norbit
The Nude Bomb
Oscar
Phantom of the Opera
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Prestige
The Princess Diaries 2
Psycho
The Shaggy Dog
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Shout
Show Boat
So Goes My Love
Spartacus
Spider-Man 2
The Sting
Strange Bedfellows
Starship Dave
Superhero Movie
Streets of Fire
To Kill A Mockingbird
Torn Curtain
Transformers
The Truman Show
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Village of the Giants
War of the Worlds
When Harry Met Sally
The Wizard
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Your Studio and You
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[@Theogwill]

Had a pleasure working in some of those soundstages and the universal lot in early 2000’s. Working in production and behind the camera is one of the coolest things you can experience.

[@theuniversalguy]

Universal will always be part of my heart

[@cowmissing]

Thanks for sharing! We love Universal too. =)

[@charleshamilton9274]

Well, I live in Denver and I have to say “Denver Street” is really accurate! 🤷‍♂️ This was well made and really entertaining. 👍

[@cowmissing]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andiflores4638]

2:21 that’s where “never have I ever” is filmed 😌

[@joenj383]

That's real cool. Thanks for posting. Luckily, we went to Universal summer 2019 and had a great time. I really enjoyed seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff.

[@StarzOnPlanetMarz]

Oh that’s nice! I’m going to the Universal Theme Park in a few days! ^v^

[@mikeymikeemikee]

I’ll be on that set soon!!!!!!!!!!

[@dodgson_9327]

Always wished to take a walk down Denver/ Western street where they filmed Leo DiCaprio in Once upon a time in Hollywood

[@SkinFurNarNish22]

Fortunate enough to work overnights in the backlot. There’s nothing like golf carting around at 2am and exploring.

[@dodgson_9327]

SKINFURNARNISH lucky

[@darkzoneattractions1060]

Just ask, they will let you wonder at the right time

[@nicholasvinyard2978]

This is like so cool I like how the set it set up It’s so cool to see all these houses that were on set at one time in an movies . It’s really neat Would be really cool to be an actor I can’t wait

[@naomifox9337]

My grandpa worked at sound sound studios i always got to walk around there for free i loved it. Its amazingly beautiful.

[@grahamhill6340]

I have worked at Universal Studios off and on through four decades... from a tour guide in the 1970's, studio historian 1978-1988 and even a studiodriver. I have seen the studio change hands six times from MCA -Comcast, when I knew it best it was a studio with a tour attached... now its a tour, make that theme park with a studio attached... I've seen them concrete over so many of its 400 some acres, but its iconic period of studio growth were the MCA years 1960's thru 1990's. Great drone footage, and like on studio lots its available to rent... MCA was the last major lot to go rental, being they had so many TV productions of their own there was no space for anyone else's. Yes, what an irony the only studio in the business that has its own real LA County Fire Department, and its had the most, and costliest fires... the last one losing 100's of major master recordings of so many music greats, that were vaulted so close to the weathered old sets.

[@cowmissing]

@GrahamHill Thank you for sharing some of your history with us.

[@creolelady182]

will have to agree with you. No filmaker these days need a movie studio when y ou can do everything on location and shoot with your cell phone. I visted Universal in the mid 70's when Marcus Welby MD, Ironside and Columbo were filming, I remember I saw Elena Verdugo enter her car after shooting an episode

[@user-vd6jq9kd9x]

Graham - I guess the old Western town from The Virginian TV series and classics like the original Winchester 73 with Jimmy Stewart was demolished to make way for this "modern" version?

[@paulmapa9797]

I MISS COLONIAL STREET

[@weebgrinder]

A filmmaker's wet dream Pretty nice depth of field on your drone camera, too.

[@stevenadd1978]

Your job is awesome thanks for the awesome videos

[@cowmissing]

Thanks, Steven. We're glad you enjoy them.

[@sibrechtfieggen5025]

great!

[@Ethan-oo2wh]

I wish coronavirus never happened. I miss going to universal 😢

[@christopherrichards2350]

Same here.

[@un2rws132]

SAMEEEE I miss it SO MUCH!!

[@RandysDirtyBurger]

2:40 is the house used in the smash mouth all star music video

[@blueberrybluetube1955]

I hope Universal will make the Water Tower so that the filming company will be in uniform.

[@jimk3407]

Holy cow! Nice video.

[@michaeljordan6008]

Hitchcock got so much quality tail on the casting couch. May God bless him.

[@mwr8408]

3:50 There's the house from Garfield: The Movie!

[@Aryansdas]

I wish i could come there

[@adrianmelendez3901]

Damn they really did take away WhoVill

[@untitledjunk03]

3:51/3:55 Those are the houses from Garfield, and Hulk! :)

[@DWINC]

Is that log cabin still there? It’s from the great outdoors, right? I think it was removed.

[@cowmissing]

Yes, it’s been removed.

[@stafonvoncamron]

If I had a crap load of money I would build my own back lot with many cities and towns that cover every period.

[@M1GarandMan3005]

Dude, you forgot the worker's village from The Lost World: Jurassic Park!!!

[@cowmissing]

There was a lot that wasn't include. We didn't want the video to be an hour long! :)

[@sancheezy77]

@@cowmissing any chance we will ever be able to get that ?

[@ryantate3870]

where do you get this music from?

[@cowmissing]

From a production music library.

[@SuperPez13]

Very cool! Where did you grab these shots?

[@scvandy3129]

NOTHING was "grabbed." This is a professionally assembled production with the full cooperation and support of Universal. "Grab" shots are the endless KZbin videos shot by individuals shooting from the moving Tour trams. Amateurs. "Not that there's anything wrong with that."

[@Jackson_2329]

Wow, it used to be so green. Now it’s all dead and yellow lol

[@noelallanofficial]

2:45 iconic The Munsters mansion

[@cowmissing]

1313 Mockingbird Lane. :)

[@scvandy3129]

"Noel Allan" Unfortunately, for the purists and Hollywood historian-types, it's about a mile up the hill near the old 'Wilderness' region of the backlot. The ORIGINAL Munsters house -- at its unique, spot-on, fictitious address, 1313 Mockingbird Lane -- was smack middle in the FULL, COMPLETE Colonial Street set on the lower lot. The historic exterior set was razed circa 1981, to accommodate the massive, new Amblin Entertainment fortress. Some of the other Colonial Street facades (e.g., the Cleaver/ Welby home from the popular "Leave It to Beaver" and "Marcus Welby, M.D." series) were "struck" and relocated to top of the backlot region where a shorter street was laid out, paved and decorated with various fronts. Christened Colonial Street, much later, in 2004, it became more famously known as Wisteria Lane when "Desperate Housewives" needed a controlled environment resembling a suburban street

[@lemurlemur8214]

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