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Built by First National
First National Pictures built the studio lot in Burbank in 1926. In September 1928 Warner Bros. bought a majority interest in First National and began moving its productions to Burbank, where the studio then had four sound stages.


Streets built for the camera
Over the following decades the backlot grew: New York Street in 1930, Hennessy Street in 1937 and Midwest Street in 1939, with more to follow. From 1972 to 1990 Warner Bros. shared the lot with Columbia Pictures as The Burbank Studios. By 2015 it had 35 sound stages.
Opening the gates
The public tour began in 1973, long known as the VIP Tour, and is now the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood. Television series made on the lot include Friends, filmed here for ten years, and The Big Bang Theory.

