Fox Film
The
Fox Film Corporation was an
American company which produced
motion pictures, formed in
1915 when founder
William Fox merged two
companies he had established in
1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the
Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company. (see
vertical integration)
The company's first film studios were set up in
Fort Lee, New Jersey but in 1917, William Fox sent
Sol M. Wurtzel to
Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new
West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking. On
July 23,
1926, the company bought the
patents of the
Movietone sound system for recording sound on to
film.
William Fox lost control over the company after the
Stock Market Crash of 1929, in
1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president
Sidney Kent, the new owners merged the company in 1935 with
Twentieth Century Pictures to form
20th Century Fox.
Among the studio's notable films:
1920s
*
Lights of New York (1922, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Madness of Youth (1923, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Fig Leaves (1926, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Yankee Senor (1926, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Hell's Four Hundred (1926, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Joy Girl (1927, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Seventh Heaven (1927)
*
Sunrise (1927), one of the first films in the sound-on-film system Fox
Movietone*
None But the Brave (1928, with
Technicolor sequences)
*
Street Angel (1928)
*
In Old Arizona (1928, Fox's first all-talkie, Academy Award winner)
*
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929, with
Multicolor sequences)
*
Married in Hollywood (1929, with
Multicolor sequences)
*
Sunnyside Up (1929, with
Multicolor sequences)
1930s
*
New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930, with
Multicolor sequences)
*
Happy Days (1930)
*
Are You There? (1930)
*
High Society Blues (1930)
*
Just Imagine (1930)
*
The Big Trail (1930)
*
Song O' My Heart (1930)
*
Cameo Kirby (1930)
*
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
*
Man Trouble (1930)
*
Delicious (1931, with
Multicolor sequences)
*
East Lynne (1931)
*
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
*
Charlie Chan's Chance (1932)
*
Call Her Savage (1932)
*
Hoopla (1933)
*
Cavalcade (1933, Academy Award winner, "Best Picture")
*
State Fair ( 1933)
*
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
