CEA Studios

Cinematografía Española Americana S.A.
CEA Studios
Native name
Estudios CEA
Company typePrivate
IndustryFilm
Founded17 March 1932; 92 years ago (1932-03-17)
Defunct4 April 1977 (1977-04-04)
HeadquartersCiudad Lineal,
Madrid
,
Spain

CEA Studios (Spanish: 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.[1]

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.[2]

At CEA Studios numerous Spanish films were filmed such as Our Lady of Sorrows (1934) by Jean Grémillon[3] and The Violet Seller (1958) by Luis César Amadori,[4] and also large international productions such as The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) by Sergio Leone and Doctor Zhivago (1965) by David Lean.[5]

  1. ^ Pavlovic, Tatjana; Alvarez, Inmaculada; Blanco-Cano, Rosana (18 November 2008). 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-4051-8420-5. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. ^ "The disappeared film studios that gave the CEA bridge its name". ABC (in Spanish). 27 February 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  3. ^ Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  4. ^ Bolín, Guillermo (28 December 1957). "Sara Montiel will sing ten "cuplés" in "La Violetera"". Blanco y Negro (in Spanish). pp. 73–76. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ "When Canillas was Moscow in "Doctor Zhivago"". ABC (in Spanish). 11 January 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2020.