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 1526-1550 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-68775 16-in. 3/18/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68776 16-in. 3/18/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68777 16-in. 3/18/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68778 16-in. 3/18/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68779 16-in. 3/18/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68780 16-in. 3/19/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68781 16-in. 3/19/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68782 16-in. 3/19/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68783 16-in. 3/19/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68784 16-in. 3/19/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68785 16-in. 3/19/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68786 16-in. 3/19/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68787 16-in. 3/19/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68788 16-in. 3/20/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68789 16-in. 3/20/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Re-recording from film, with dubbed recording Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68790 16-in. 3/20/1931 Under suspicion Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68791 16-in. 3/19/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 52 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68797 16-in. 3/23/1931 Doctors' wives Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68798 16-in. 3/23/1931 A Connecticut Yankee Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68799 16-in. 3/23/1931 A Connecticut Yankee Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68800 16-in. 3/23/1931 A Connecticut Yankee Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68901 16-in. 3/20/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68902 16-in. 3/20/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68903 16-in. 3/23/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68904 16-in. 3/23/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 1526-1550 of 2619 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fox Film Corporation," accessed July 6, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved July 6, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

"Fox Film Corporation." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 6 July 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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