The Studio Tour (also known as The Backlot Tour) is a ride attraction at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Universal City, California near Los Angeles. Studio Tour is the theme park's signature attraction. It travels through a working film studio, with various film sets on the Universal Studios Lot. Guests sit on multi-car trams for the duration of the ride. The tour lasts about 45–60 minutes and the tour is led by a prerecorded video guide by Jimmy Fallon. It travels through the Front Lot, Backlot and various attractions, passing sets and properties from movies along the way. The tour inspired a smaller but similar version at Universal Studios Florida, which was removed in 1995. History From 1915, when visitors sat on bleachers for 25 cents, to the 1964 introduction of pink and white Glamor Trams, to its current technological sophistication, the behind-the-scenes view of a working movie studio has been a large attraction of the park. During the early years of the tram tour (1964–1965), all the attractions at Universal were seen via the tram. It originally departed from the front lot commissary. In 1965, the upper lot studio tour center opened. As the movie studio has evolved, the tour has evolved with it. In late 1989, CD players finally gave the tour guides a chance to rest their voices. In 1999, the CD players were replaced by DVD players and LCD screens, allowing tour guides to show scenes from movies filmed at the locations the trams pass. In 2009, the screens were upgraded to high-definition. In 2011, Jimmy Fallon joined the tour as a video host to supplement the live-action narration and also appeared in some filming scenes. He also performs an original song at the end of the tour for riders. The song was temporarily removed in 2016 and now becomes a billboard signature. Since 2006, some studio tours have bypassed the Collapsing Bridge, due to aging and wearing. However, the bridge has since undergone renovations, and was added back to the tour schedules in August 2008. Since July 2010, the Collapsing Bridge has been used as a representation of the Skull Island area for the new King Kong: 360 3-D attraction. Like its parent theme park, its closure in mid-March 2020 caused tours to be indefinitely shut down but was reopened in April 2021. Film sets Sets from the Universal movies Psycho, Back to