| Some of the buildings on the Sony Pictures' Studio lot have been around since the beginning and have a history that recalls some of the most honored names in filmmaking. Here's a brief look at the following: Capra, Cohn, Crawford, Stage 15, the Water Tower and Stage 30
CAPRA BUILDING
The Capra Building at Sony Pictures Studios (SPS), named for Columbia Pictures’ star director Frank Capra, was occupied for many years by Metrocolor, MGM’s film processing lab. During the studio’s renovation in the early 1990’s, the building was re-designed to resemble a courthouse and bank for filming exterior locations and the original façade was aged to reflect Capra’s era. One side of the Capra building displays a long stretch of faux window fronts dressed with the studio’s props and wardrobe, also used as exterior locations fo r such film and television programs as Spider-Man, Party of Five, and The King of Queens. Today, the Capra building is home to the Sony Pictures Digital Authoring Center (DAC), one of the premiere multi-format authoring houses in the world and a leader in R&D home entertainment technologies. Starting with the theatrical master, the DAC re-masters for a variety of content distribution channels, such as Sony PSP Video, VOD, DVD, Blu-ray High Definition, cell phones and solid-state media.
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