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 76-100 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-55735 16-in. 7/29/1929 Pleasure crazed Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55736 16-in. 7/29/1929 Pleasure crazed Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55742 16-in. 8/1/1929 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 2, no. 44B Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55743 16-in. 8/1/1929 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 2, no. 44A Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55744 16-in. 8/1/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55745 16-in. 8/1/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55746 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55747 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55748 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55749 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55750 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55751 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55752 16-in. 8/2/1929 Masquerade Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55759 16-in. 8/7/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55760 16-in. 8/7/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55761 16-in. 8/7/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55762 16-in. 8/7/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55763 16-in. 8/7/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55764 16-in. 8/16/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55765 16-in. 8/7/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55766 16-in. 8/8/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55767 16-in. 8/13/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55768 16-in. 8/13/1929 Lucky star Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55769 16-in. 8/8/1929 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 2, no. 45A Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-55770 16-in. 8/8/1929 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 2, no. 45B Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 76-100 of 2619 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fox Film Corporation," accessed October 31, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

Fox Film Corporation. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 31, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105695.

"Fox Film Corporation." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 31 October 2024.

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