{{short description|Historic film studios in Berlin}} [[File:Terra Studios.jpg|thumb|300px|The original studios in 1913.]] The '''Terra Studios''' or '''Marienfelde Studios''' were [[film studios]] located in the [[Berlin]] suburb of [[Marienfelde]].
The studios were originally a [[Greenhouse|glasshouse]] constructed in 1913 by the early company [[Eiko Film]], controlled by the [[film producer|producer]] [[Franz Vogel]] who had previously been using the Sellerstrasse Studios of Rex Film.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cinegraph.de/etc/ateliers/eiko.html | title=Berliner Film-Ateliers: Eiko-Atelier }}</ref> In the early 1920s Terra Film was founded and took over the studios from the defunct Eiko. It was known as the '''Terra-Glashaus''' during these years.<ref>Bach p.496</ref><ref>Jung & Schatzberg p.220</ref>
In 1930 the studio underwent major rebuilding following the acquisition of Terra by [[Eugen Scotoni]], and was fitted for [[sound film|sound]] production using the [[Tobis-Klangfilm]] system. During the consolidation of the German film industry in the 1930s under the [[Nazi era]], Terra rose to become one of the four major companies alongside [[UFA GmbH|UFA]], [[Bavaria Film|Bavaria]] and [[Tobis Film|Tobis]]. It continued producing at Marienfelde until the late 1930s when the further centralisation of German film production under the [[Nazi regime]] led to the downgrading of the studios, and gave Terra access to the better-equipped Berlin studios of [[Babelsberg Studios|Babelsberg]], [[Johannisthal Studios|Johannisthal]] and [[Tempelhof Studios|Tempelhof]].
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Bach, Steven. ''Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend''. University of Minnesota Press, 2013. *Kramer, Thomas & Siegrist, Dominik. ''Terra: ein Schweizer Filmkonzern im Dritten Reich''. Chronos, 1991. * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945''.University of California Press, 1999. * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999.
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