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and perjury charges. Fox Film, with more than 500 theatres, was placed in receivership. A bank-mandated reorganization propped the company up for a time, but it soon became apparent that despite its size, Fox could not stand on its own. William Fox resented the way he was forced out of his company
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and renamed 20th Century Studios. For many years, 20th Century-Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915; for instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, marking its 75th rather than 95th anniversary in 2010.
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In 1926, a subsidiary, Fox Movietone Corporation, was created, tasked with producing newsreels using Fox's recently acquired sound-on-film technology. The first of these newsreels debuted on January 21, 1927. Four months later, the May 25 release of a sound recording of
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was launched as a regular newsreel feature December 3 of that year. Production of the series continued after the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures, until 1963, and continued to serve 20th Century Fox after that, as a source for film industry stock footage.
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and prints, including the best-quality copies of every Fox feature produced prior to 1932; although copies located elsewhere allowed many to survive in some form, over 75% of Fox's feature films from before 1930 are completely
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routines along with motion pictures, he expanded into larger venues beginning with his purchase of the disused Gaiety theater, and continuing with acquisitions throughout New York City and New Jersey, including the
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unit to delay giving final approval to the merger. William Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered, he had lost most of his fortune in the
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production facilities where a more hospitable and cost-effective climate existed for filmmaking. Between 1915 and 1919, Fox Films earned millions of dollars through films featuring
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Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Fox concentrated on acquiring and building theaters; pictures were secondary. The company's first film studios were set up in
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This large stage at the Fox Studio on North Western Avenue was used as the men's dressing room when more than 2,000 people were needed for the Jerusalem street scenes in
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That same year, in 1914, Fox Film began making motion pictures in California, and in 1915 decided to build its own permanent studio. The company leased the Los Angeles
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in 1920. William Fox was unwilling to compromise on production quality in order to make serials profitable, however, and none were produced subsequently.
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Because William Fox opted to remain in New York, much of the Hollywood filmmaking at the Fox Film Corporation was instead managed by Fox's movie makers.
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remained one of the major names in the newsreel industry by providing often-exclusive coverage of major international events, including reporting on
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In 1914, reflecting the broader scope of his business, he renamed it the Box Office Attraction Company He entered into a contract with the
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endorsed the newsreel in a letter, in what may have been the first time an American president commented on a film. In subsequent years,
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theaters and renting the prints to other exhibitors nationwide. He also continued to distribute material from other sources, such as
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for $ 1,667. He reinvested his profits from that initial location, expanding to fifteen similar venues in the city, and purchasing
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film studio. The Loew family agreed to the sale, and the merger of Fox and Loew's Inc. was announced in 1929; MGM studio bosses
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died in 1927, Fox offered to buy the Loew family's holdings. Loew's Inc. controlled more than 200 theaters, as well as the
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until its own studio, located at Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, was completed in 1916. In 1917, William Fox sent
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production facilities, where the climate was more hospitable for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, Fox Studios bought the
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on the creation and distribution of motion pictures. Fox refused to sell out to the monopoly, and sued under the
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libraries have largely survived. The earlier series and some parts of its sound successor are now held by the
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Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began negotiating with the upstart, but powerful independent
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were not included in the deal, and fought back. Using powerful political connections, Mayer called upon the
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in the open country west of Beverly Hills and built "Movietone City", the best-equipped studio of its time.
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Overextended and close to bankruptcy, Fox was stripped of his empire in 1930 and later ended up in jail on
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premiered on October 11, 1919, with subsequent issues released on the Wednesday and Sunday of each week.
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Fox invested further in the film industry by founding the Greater New York Film Rental Company as a
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was described by film historian Raymond Fielding as the "first sound news film of consequence".
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Pierce, David (1997). "The Legion of the Condemned — Why American Silent Films Perished".
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feature, that ran until 1963. The growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired
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that produced motion pictures and was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer
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With the introduction of sound technology, Fox moved to acquire the rights to a
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would also become one of the company's most prominent stars by the late 1920s.
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This article is about the defunct film studio. For its extant successor, see
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The Bible on Silent Film: Spectacle, Story and Scripture in the Early Cinema
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entered the film industry in 1904 when he purchased a one-third share of a
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gained an advantage over its more established competitors when President
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process. In the years 1925–26, Fox purchased the rights to the work of
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and portrayed it as an active conspiracy against him in the 1933 book
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of various types were also produced by Fox. Beginning in 1916, the
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in the early spring of 1935. Twentieth Century had begun in the
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The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935: A History and Filmography
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in a Fox film storage facility destroyed over 40,000 reels of
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film studio, purchasing all of their films for showing in his
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Perman, Stacy; James, Meg; Faughnder, Ryan (March 8, 2019).
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The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry
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system invented by three German inventors, and the work of
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The American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911–1967
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Index

20th Century Studios
Fox Corporation

Twentieth Century Pictures
Film
Fort Lee, New Jersey
William Fox
Twentieth Century Pictures
20th Century-Fox (now 20th Century Studios)
Subsidiaries
independent company
William Fox
Fort Lee, New Jersey
Sol M. Wurtzel
Hollywood, California
West Coast
patents
Movietone sound system
film
crash of 1929
hostile takeover
Twentieth Century Pictures
20th Century-Fox

William Fox
Brooklyn
nickelodeon
prints
Biograph
Essanay

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