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 (Results 2601-2619 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor CVE-72784 12-in. 7/6/1932 Almost married Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72785 12-in. 7/6/1932 Almost married Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72786 12-in. 7/6/1932 Almost married Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72787 12-in. 7/6/1932 Almost married Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72788 12-in. 7/6/1932 Almost married Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-72789 12-in. 7/6/1932 Almost married Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-0401[e] 16-in. 3/27/1930 Love comes along Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-0401[f] 16-in. 3/27/1930 Love comes along Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23[a] 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23[b] 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23[c] 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23[d] 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23[e] 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-J-19F-23[f] 12-in. 12/21/1932 Robbers' roost Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-Test-555 16-in. 9/4/1929 Words and music, reel 5 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-Test-555 16-in. 9/4/1929 Test on 5th reel of Words and music Victor Records technical staff (unnamed) Motion picture soundtrack : Transfer from film to wax Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-Test-1205 12-in. 5/20/1930 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 3, no. 68 Victor Records technical staff (unnamed) Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-Test-1601 12-in. 9/28/1931 Wicked Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Test Motion picture production company  
(Results 2601-2619 of 2619 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fox Film Corporation," accessed April 25, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

"Fox Film Corporation." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 April 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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