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 1551-1575 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-68905 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-68906 14-in. 3/23/1931 Betty Compton and Ruby Keeler Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68907 14-in. 3/23/1931 Richard Bonelli Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68908 14-in. 3/23/1931 Will Rogers Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68910 16-in. 3/24/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 53 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68912 16-in. 3/24/1931 Doctors' wives Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68913 16-in. 3/25/1931 Doctors' wives Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68914 16-in. 3/25/1931 Doctors' wives Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68915 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68916 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68917 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68918 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68919 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68920 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68921 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68922 16-in. 3/25/1931 Fair warning Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68923 16-in. 3/26/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 54 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68933 16-in. 3/27/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68934 16-in. 3/27/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68935 16-in. 3/27/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68936 16-in. 3/27/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MRC-68937 16-in. 3/27/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68943 16-in. 3/27/1931 Mr. Lemon of Orange Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68944 16-in. 3/30/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-68945 16-in. 3/30/1931 Charlie Chan carries on Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 1551-1575 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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