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 126-150 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-56016 16-in. 8/20/1929 Four devils Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56017 16-in. 8/20/1929 Four devils Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56018 16-in. 8/20/1929 Four devils Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56019 16-in. 8/20/1929 Four devils Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56022 16-in. 8/21/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56023 16-in. 8/21/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56024 16-in. 8/21/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56025 16-in. 8/21/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56026 16-in. 8/21/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56027 16-in. 8/22/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56028 16-in. 8/22/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56029 16-in. 8/22/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56030 16-in. 8/22/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56031 16-in. 8/23/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56032 16-in. 8/23/1929 Christina Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56034 16-in. 8/22/1929 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 2, no. 47A Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56035 16-in. 8/22/1929 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 2, no. 47B Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56038 16-in. 8/23/1929 Pleasure crazed Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56039 16-in. 8/23/1929 Pleasure crazed Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56040 16-in. 8/26/1929 Pleasure crazed Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56051 16-in. 8/27/1929 Words and music Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56052 16-in. 8/27/1929 Words and music Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56053 16-in. 8/27/1929 Words and music Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56054 16-in. 8/27/1929 Words and music Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56055 16-in. 8/27/1929 Words and music Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 126-150 of 2619 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fox Film Corporation," accessed March 28, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

"Fox Film Corporation." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 28 March 2024.

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