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 2151-2175 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor CVE-71011 12-in. 11/2/1931 The yellow ticket Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71012 12-in. 11/2/1931 The yellow ticket Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71013 12-in. 11/2/1931 The yellow ticket Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71014 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71015 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71016 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71017 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71018 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71019 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71020 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71021 16-in. 11/2/1931 Esso promotional motion picture Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71022 16-in. 11/2/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71023 16-in. 11/2/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71024 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71025 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71026 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71027 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71028 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71029 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71030 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71031 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71032 16-in. 11/3/1931 Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71036 12-in. 11/5/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 14 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71037 12-in. 11/5/1931 Ambassador Bill Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71038 16-in. 11/6/1931 Ambassador Bill Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 2151-2175 of 2619 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fox Film Corporation," accessed June 18, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved June 18, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

"Fox Film Corporation." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 18 June 2024.

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