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

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings (Results 1901-1925 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-70320 16-in. 7/21/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 87 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70321 16-in. 7/23/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 88 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70330 16-in. 7/28/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 89 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70331 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70332 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70333 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70334 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70335 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70336 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70337 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70338 16-in. 7/29/1931 ¿Conoces a tu mujer? Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70340 16-in. 7/30/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 90 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70342 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70343 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70344 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70345 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70346 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70347 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70348 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70349 16-in. 7/31/1931 Transatlantic Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70354 12-in. 8/4/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 91 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70356 12-in. 8/6/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 4, no. 92 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70361 16-in. 8/7/1931 The brat Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70362 16-in. 8/7/1931 The brat Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70363 16-in. 8/7/1931 The brat Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 1901-1925 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.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: https://adpprod1.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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