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 2251-2275 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor CVE-71156 12-in. 12/10/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 24 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71157 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71158 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71159 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71160 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71161 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71162 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71163 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71164 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71165 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71166 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71167 12-in. 12/22/1931 Delicious Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71168 12-in. 12/15/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 25 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71170 12-in. 12/17/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 26 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71171 16-in. 12/17/1931 The rainbow trail Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71172 16-in. 12/17/1931 The rainbow trail Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71173 16-in. 12/17/1931 The rainbow trail Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71174 16-in. 12/17/1931 The rainbow trail Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71175 16-in. 12/17/1931 The rainbow trail Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-71176 16-in. 12/17/1931 The rainbow trail Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71177 12-in. 12/22/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 27 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71178 12-in. 12/23/1931 Good sport Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71179 12-in. 12/23/1931 Good sport Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71180 12-in. 12/23/1931 Good sport Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-71181 12-in. 12/23/1931 Good sport Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 2251-2275 of 2619 records)

Citation

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

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 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 May 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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