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 2076-2100 of 2619 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-70786 16-in. 9/29/1931 Daddy long legs Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70787 16-in. 9/29/1931 Daddy long legs Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70788 16-in. 9/29/1931 Daddy long legs Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70789 12-in. 9/29/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 3 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70790 12-in. 9/30/1931 Riders of the purple sage Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70791 12-in. 9/30/1931 Riders of the purple sage Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70792 12-in. 9/30/1931 Riders of the purple sage Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70793 12-in. 9/30/1931 Riders of the purple sage Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70794 12-in. 9/30/1931 Riders of the purple sage Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70795 12-in. 9/30/1931 Riders of the purple sage Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70796 16-in. 9/30/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70797 16-in. 9/30/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70798 16-in. 9/30/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70799 16-in. 9/30/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70800 16-in. 9/30/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70801 16-in. 9/30/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70802 16-in. 10/1/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70803 16-in. 10/1/1931 La ley del harem Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor CVE-70804 12-in. 10/1/1931 Fox Movietone news. Vol. 5, no. 4 Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70805 16-in. 10/5/1931 A holy terror Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70806 16-in. 10/5/1931 A holy terror Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70807 16-in. 10/6/1931 A holy terror Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70808 16-in. 10/6/1931 A holy terror Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70809 16-in. 10/6/1931 A holy terror Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-70810 16-in. 10/6/1931 A holy terror Fox Film Corporation Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 2076-2100 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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