Cité Elgé

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Cité Elgé was a set of French film studios in Paris. Built in 1905 in the Buttes-Chaumont area by Gaumont, a pioneer of European cinema, they were also known as the Studios des Buttes-Chaumont. They were for a time the largest studios in the world. In 1953, control passed to the RTF television organization. The studios closed in the 1990s and were later turned into housing. A documentary about their history, "Les Buttes-Chaumont, Legendary Studios," directed by Jean-François Méplon and Fabien Lepage and produced by Olivier Wlodarczyk for Egodoc, aired on April 3, 2015 on France 3 Paris Île-de-France.