The Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the German region of Bavaria. They were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the First World War. During their early years they were known as the Emelka Studios, while Geiselgasteig has also often been used to refer to them. They provided a provincial rival to the emerging dominance of Berlin studios, particularly the UFA conglomerate. Bavaria Film took over the studios, and became the dominant non-Berlin production company. While working on a co-production for Britain's Gainsborough Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock made his 1926 silent The Mountain Eagle on the Emelka stages.