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The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company. (see vertical integration) 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 a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patent of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film. William Fox lost control over the company after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners merged the company in 1935 with Twentieth Century Pictures to form... full article at wikipedia

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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by marivie Jun 22, 2008

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