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Fox Film Corporation

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us: Fox Film Corporation


  • [Fox Film Corporation was a motion picture production and distribution company. Established in 1915 in a merger of Box Office Attractions Company and Greater New York Film Rental, the company later merged in 1935 with Twentieth Century Pictures to form Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.]

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    • found: Tally, T.L. In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ... 1936: t.p. (Fox Film Corporation)
    • found: Encyc. Brit. 1980 (20th Century-Fox Film Corporation formed in 1935 by the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures [no pubs. in UCLA] and Fox Film Corporation)
    • found: LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; inc. in N.Y., Feb. 1, 1915, as Fox Film Corporation, with perpetual charter; present title adopted in Aug. 1935 when assets and business of Twentieth Century Pictures, inc. were acquired)
    • found: Slide, A. The American film industry, 1986: p. 47 (Box Office Attractions Company formed by William Fox in 1914 was replaced by the Fox Film Corporation in 1915)
    • found: Wikipedia, Feb. 16, 2011 (Fox Film Corporation; motion picture production and distribution company; est. 1915 by William Fox in merger of Greater New York Film Rental and Box Office Attractions Company; merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935)
    • notfound: NUCMC data from Va. Poly. Inst. & St. Univ. Libr. for Stories and plays owned by the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1936

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    • [Fox Film Corporation was a motion picture production and distribution company. Established in 1915 in a merger of Box Office Attractions Company and Greater New York Film Rental, the company later merged in 1935 with Twentieth Century Pictures to form Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.]

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    • [Old catalog heading: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation]

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    • 1987-11-24: new
    • 2012-07-31: revised

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