During the Second World War the studio was used by Continental Films, a company financed by the German occupiers.
He thus created the first modern French studio, including on the same place restaurant, workshops, dressing rooms.
They know with talking pictures their real start thanks to the Western Electric sound recording system.
A room of fifteen meters high under ceiling is traversed by modular metal walkways.
Set designers Alexandre Trauner and Eugène Lourié, cinematographer Henri Alekan and unique technical know-how propel the studios to first place in Europe.