CEA Studios

{{Short description|Film studio}}

{{use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Cinematografía Española Americana S.A.

| logo =

| trade_name = CEA Studios

| native_name = Estudios CEA

| native_name_lang = es

| type = Private

| industry = Film

| founded = {{Start date and age|1932|3|17|df=yes}}

| defunct = {{End date|1977|4|4|df=yes}}

| hq_location = Ciudad Lineal

| hq_location_city = Madrid

| hq_location_country = Spain

}}

CEA Studios ({{Langx|es|Estudios CEA}}), acronym for Cinematografía Española Americana S.A., was a Spanish film studio and production company in Ciudad Lineal, Madrid whose facilities were opened in 1934 and were running until 1966.{{cite book| last1 = Pavlovic| first1 = Tatjana| last2 = Alvarez| first2 = Inmaculada| last3 = Blanco-Cano| first3 = Rosana| title = 100 Years of Spanish Cinema| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wsYqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA236| accessdate = May 26, 2020| date = 18 November 2008| publisher = John Wiley & Sons| isbn = 978-1-4051-8420-5| page = 236 }}

The Studio had six sound stages, photographic laboratories for the edition of the films, set construction workshops, dressing rooms for the actors and a rest area with a swimming pool.{{cite news|title=The disappeared film studios that gave the CEA bridge its name|url=https://www.abc.es/madrid/20150227/abci-desaparecidos-estudios-cine-dieron-201502231405.html|accessdate=May 28, 2020|journal=ABC|language=es|date=27 February 2015}}

At CEA Studios numerous Spanish films were filmed such as Our Lady of Sorrows (1934) by Jean Grémillon{{cite book|last=Bentley|first=Bernard P. E.|title=A Companion to Spanish Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6kRqqwNMm0C&pg=PA66|accessdate=May 28, 2020|year=2008|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-1-85566-176-9|page=66}} and The Violet Seller (1958) by Luis César Amadori,{{cite news|author=Bolín, Guillermo|title=Sara Montiel will sing ten "cuplés" in "La Violetera"|url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/blanco-negro-19571228-74.html|accessdate=May 17, 2020|magazine=Blanco y Negro|pages=73–76|language=es|date=28 December 1957}} and also large international productions such as The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) by Sergio Leone and Doctor Zhivago (1965) by David Lean.{{cite journal|title=When Canillas was Moscow in "Doctor Zhivago"|url=http://www.abc.es/madrid/gente-estilo/20150111/abci-canillas-doctor-zhivago-201501101253.html|accessdate=May 28, 2020|journal=ABC|language=es|date=11 January 2015}}