Raleigh Studios

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| name = Raleigh Studios

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| address = 5300 Melrose Avenue

| location_town = Los Angeles, California

| location_country = United States

| owner = Raleigh Enterprises

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| opened_date = {{start date and age|paren=yes|1979}} (as Raleigh Studios)

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Raleigh Studios is a studio facility located in Hollywood, Los Angeles and has been under the ownership of Raleigh Enterprises since 1979. The location has been active since 1915.{{cite book | last=Roman | first=James | year=2015 | title=Chronicles of Old Los Angeles: Exploring the Devilish History of the City of the Angels | publisher=Museyon | isbn=978-1-940842-00-4 | page=250 }} Before Raleigh, the studio was run by the Famous Players Film Company, Producers Studios, Clune Studios, California Studios, and others.{{cite web | url=https://raleighstudios.com/history/ | title=History – Raleigh Studios | publisher=Raleigh Studios | accessdate=October 4, 2022 }} Raleigh "has no identifiable brand or logo", serving as a rental space for numerous films both before Raleigh Enterprises ownership and afterward.{{cite book | last1=Lawson | first1=Kristan | last2=Anneli | first2=Anneli | year=2013 | title=California Babylon: A Guide to Site of Scandal, Mayhem and Celluloid in the Golden State | publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group | isbn=978-1-4668-5414-7 | page=48 }} Author Tom Ogden describes Raleigh Studios as "an independent studio, unaffiliated with any of the majors" which in 2009 had nine soundstages available.{{cite book | last=Ogden | first=Tom | year=2009 | title=Haunted Hollywood: Tinseltown Terrors, Filmdom Phantoms, and Movieland Mayhem | publisher=Globe Pequot | isbn=978-0-7627-5620-9 | page=157 }} As of 2022, the location had 13 soundstages.{{cite web | url=https://raleighstudios.com/sound-stages/ | title=Sound Stages | publisher=Raleigh Studios | access-date=April 28, 2022 }}

There are offshoots of Raleigh Studios, including Raleigh Studios Michigan in Pontiac, Michigan.{{cite book | last1=Dixon | first1=Wheeler Winston | last2=Foster | first2=Gwendolyn Audrey | year=2011 | title=21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation | publisher=Rutgers University Press | isbn=978-0-8135-5198-2 | page=126 }}

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