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An Apollonaut travel guide
A studio in the city.
An introduction to Burbank, where the Warner Bros. lot has stood since 1926.
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Read the city from Warner Boulevard
The Studio Tour starts at 3400 Warner Boulevard in Burbank, at the Tour Center beside the studio lot.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how the studio’s gates, stages and offices meet the streets around them. Respect homes, working businesses and places of worship.
Façades and stages
A backlot is built for the camera: façades that read as a city street or a small town, and sound stages large enough to hold whole sets, one of them with a water tank.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you how a set was built, or the conditions in which people worked.
A studio chapter
The Warner Bros. lot shows one side of Burbank: a place where film and television have been made for a century.
Look at the meeting of the two: the everyday city outside the gates, and the streets inside that stand in for somewhere else.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the studio’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents their makers.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
