# CEA Studios

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{{Short description|Film studio}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Cinematografía Española Americana S.A.
| logo = 
| trade_name = CEA Studios
| native_name = Estudios CEA
| native_name_lang = es
| type = [Private](/source/Privately_held_company)
| industry = [Film](/source/Film)
| founded = {{Start date and age|1932|3|17|df=yes}}
| defunct = {{End date|1977|4|4|df=yes}}
| hq_location = [Ciudad Lineal](/source/Ciudad_Lineal)
| hq_location_city = [Madrid](/source/Madrid)
| hq_location_country = Spain
}}

'''CEA Studios''' ({{Langx|es|Estudios CEA}}), [acronym](/source/acronym) for Cinematografía Española Americana S.A., was a Spanish film studio and production company in [Ciudad Lineal](/source/Ciudad_Lineal), [Madrid](/source/Madrid) whose facilities were opened in 1934 and were running until 1966.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Pavlovic| first1 = Tatjana| last2 = Alvarez| first2 = Inmaculada| last3 = Blanco-Cano| first3 = Rosana| title = 100 Years of Spanish Cinema| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wsYqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA236| accessdate = May 26, 2020| date = 18 November 2008| publisher = John Wiley & Sons| isbn = 978-1-4051-8420-5| page = 236 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|title=The disappeared film studios that gave the CEA bridge its name|url=https://www.abc.es/madrid/20150227/abci-desaparecidos-estudios-cine-dieron-201502231405.html|accessdate=May 28, 2020|journal=[ABC](/source/ABC_(newspaper))|language=es|date=27 February 2015}}</ref>

At CEA Studios numerous Spanish films were filmed such as ''[Our Lady of Sorrows](/source/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows_(film))'' (1934) by [Jean Grémillon](/source/Jean_Gr%C3%A9millon)<ref name="Bentley2008">{{cite book|last=Bentley|first=Bernard P. E.|title=A Companion to Spanish Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6kRqqwNMm0C&pg=PA66|accessdate=May 28, 2020|year=2008|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-1-85566-176-9|page=66}}</ref> and ''[The Violet Seller](/source/The_Violet_Seller)'' (1958) by [Luis César Amadori](/source/Luis_C%C3%A9sar_Amadori),<ref>{{cite news|author=Bolín, Guillermo|title=Sara Montiel will sing ten "cuplés" in "La Violetera"|url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/blanco-negro-19571228-74.html|accessdate=May 17, 2020|magazine=[Blanco y Negro](/source/Blanco_y_Negro_(magazine))|pages=73–76|language=es|date=28 December 1957}}</ref> and also large international productions such as ''[The Colossus of Rhodes](/source/The_Colossus_of_Rhodes_(film))'' (1961) by [Sergio Leone](/source/Sergio_Leone) and ''[Doctor Zhivago](/source/Doctor_Zhivago_(film))'' (1965) by [David Lean](/source/David_Lean).<ref>{{cite journal|title=When Canillas was Moscow in "Doctor Zhivago"|url=http://www.abc.es/madrid/gente-estilo/20150111/abci-canillas-doctor-zhivago-201501101253.html|accessdate=May 28, 2020|journal=[ABC](/source/ABC_(newspaper))|language=es|date=11 January 2015}}</ref>

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Category:Film production companies of Spain
Category:Spanish film studios
Category:Mass media companies established in 1934
Category:Spanish companies established in 1934
Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 1977
Category:1977 disestablishments in Spain

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