Fox Film Corporation

The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attraction Company (founded 1913).

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 the climate was more hospitable for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

After the Wall Street crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began conversations of a fusion with Twentieth Century Pictures, under founders Joseph M. Schenck and his friend Darryl Zanuck. Schenck, Zanuck, and Spyros Skouras merged the Fox Studios with Twentieth Century to form 20th Century-Fox in 1935.

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1929 - 1932

Roles Represented in DAHR: Motion picture production company

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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings (Results 2551-2575 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor CVE-72386 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72387 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72388 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72389 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72390 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72391 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72392 12-in. 5/3/1932 While Paris sleeps Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72393 12-in. 5/3/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 65 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72396 12-in. 5/5/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 66 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72701 12-in. 5/10/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 67 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72705 12-in. 5/12/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 68 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-72709 16-in. 5/16/1932 Fleet ho Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72712 12-in. 5/17/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 69 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72715 12-in. 5/19/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 70 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72719 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72720 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72721 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72722 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72723 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72724 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72725 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72726 12-in. 5/23/1932 Man about town Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72728 12-in. 5/24/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 71 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72732 12-in. 5/26/1932 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 72 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72737 12-in. 5/31/1932 Society girl Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 2551-2575 of 2619 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fox Film Corporation," accessed May 5, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 5, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

"Fox Film Corporation." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 May 2024.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695

External Sources

Wikipedia: Fox Film

Linked Open Data Sources

LCNAR: Fox Film Corporation - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87847965

Wikidata: Fox Film - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2644123

VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/151237948

ISNI: 0000 0001 2185 2358 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000121852358

FAST: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/630273

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