Editing Biograph Studios (section)

=== Gold Medal Studios ===
[[Martin Poll]] (on July 21, 1959, sworn in as the Commissioner of Motion Picture Arts, by then [[Borough President]] of [[the Bronx]],  [[James J. Lyons]]<ref name="aarp/film-bronx">{{cite web |title=Bronx Stage and Film Company |url=https://local.aarp.org/place/bronx-stage-and-film-company-bronx-ny.html |website=local.aarp.org |access-date=16 July 2024 |language=english}}</ref>) restored the Biograph Studio facilities and reopened it in 1956 as the Gold Medal Studios.<ref name="variety">{{cite news|title=Martin Poll dies at 89, Producer drew Oscar nomination for 'The Lion in Winter' |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/martin-poll-dies-at-89-1118052696/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=2012-04-16 |access-date=2012-04-24}}</ref><ref name="bronxstage">The Bronx Stage and Film Company, [http://www.bronxstage.com/html/2005/history.htm History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814004135/http://bronxstage.com/html/2005/history.htm |date=2006-08-14 }}.</ref><ref>"Motion Picture Industry Returns to the Bronx," ''Bronxboro'', vol. 34, fall 1957, p. 3.</ref> Gold Medal Studios became the largest film studio in the United States outside of Los Angeles at the time of its 1956 reopening,<ref name="variety" /> expanding in 1958.<ref name="nytimes/1958/01/22/expansion">{{cite news |title=BRONX FILM STUDIO PLANS AN EXPANSION |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/01/22/archives/bronx-film-studio-plans-an-expansion.html |access-date=16 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=22 January 1958}}</ref>

Gold Medal Studios building at 807 East 175th St & Marion Ave., in [[The Bronx]], [[New York City]], New York was photographed by Bronx Chamber of Commerce in 1957.<ref name="nyheritage/164">{{cite web |author1=Bronx Chamber of Commerce |title=Gold Medal Studios at 807 East 175th St & Marion Ave. This building was originally used by Biograph Studios |url=https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/lc/id/164/ |website=New York Heritage Digital Collections nyheritage.org |access-date=16 July 2024 |date=October 15, 1957}}</ref>

Movies filmed at Gold Medal Studios include [[Alan Freed]]{{'}}s ''Mister Rock and Roll'' (1957),<ref name="Bronxboro/1957-Fall">{{cite news |title=Motion Picture Industry Returns To The Bronx |url=https://dcmny.org/do/fcdbea90-0fa3-4c43-9743-2bd9e2d7f58b |access-date=16 July 2024 |work=Bronxboro |publisher=dcmny.org |date=1957 |quote=Vol. XXXIV, Fall}}</ref> [[Harold Robbins]]{{'}} ''[[Never Love a Stranger]],<ref name="Bronxboro/1957-Fall"/> [[The Goddess (1958 film)]],<ref name="catalog.afi/52568">{{cite web |title=The Goddess (1958) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/52568 |website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref> [[Act One (film)]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Act One |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/22730 |website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref> [[That Kind of Woman]]<ref>{{cite web |title=That Kind of Woman|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53039 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|A Face in the Crowd]]'',<ref>{{AFI film | 52171 | A Face in the Crowd }}</ref> [[Middle of the Night]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Middle of the Night|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/52958 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> [[The Fugitive Kind]],<ref>{{AFI film|53151|The Fugitive Kind  }}</ref> ''[[Odds Against Tomorrow]]'',<ref>{{AFI film|53473 | Odds Against Tomorrow }}</ref> ''[[BUtterfield 8]]'',<ref>{{ AFI film | 53103| BUtterfield 8 }}</ref> [[Girl of the Night]],<ref>{{ AFI film | 53157| Girl of the Night }}</ref> [[Let's Rock]],<ref>{{AFI film|52638|Let's Rock}}</ref> and [[Pretty Boy Floyd (film)]].<ref>{{ AFI film | 53254  | Pretty Boy Floyd }}</ref>

The 1960 [[television pilot|pilot episode]] of [[The Dick Van Dyke Show]], ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show#Head of the Family|Head of the Family]]'', was filmed at Gold Medal Studios.<ref name="Reiner/RememberMe">{{cite book |last1=Reiner |first1=Carl |author1-link=Carl Reiner |title=I Remember Me |date=2012 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=978-1-4772-6458-4 |page=276 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qj-TStWgwIgC&pg=PA276 |language=en |quote=Head of the Family in late 1958 , at the Gold Medal Studios in my hometown, the Bronx !}}</ref><ref name="Waldron/DVDSB">{{cite book |last1=Waldron |first1=Vince |title=The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book [Deluxe Expanded Archive Edition]: The Definitive History of Television's Most Enduring Comedy |date=3 May 2014 |publisher=Words in Edgewise |isbn=978-0-9852782-6-7 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SqJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT52 |access-date=16 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref>