When the Warner brothers moved west to make pictures in the late 1910s, they built a studio at 5800 Sunset Blvd in Hollywood at the corner of Bronson Ave. Known as “The Barn,” it’s where they filmed their early successes, including the highly popular and profitable Rin Tin Tin movies, which boosted the rising career of Darryl F. Zanuck, as well as The Jazz Singer in 1927. This circa 1920 photo shows us that the surrounding land was still open scrub land. That site is still a studio and is known as the Sunset Bronson Studios.

** UPDATE** The Barn didn’t last long and the new Warner Brothers Studio was erected on the site in 1923. The Rinty films and The Jazz Singer were filmed there. Still in use as Sunset Bronson Studio and KTLA. The Radio tower was the first to broadcast KFWB.