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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).

This article is about the defunct film studio. For its extant successor, see 20th Century Studios. For the current company, see Fox Corporation.

Industry

Film

  • Greater New York Film Rental Company
  • Box Office Attraction Company

February 1, 1915 (1915-02-01) in Fort Lee, New Jersey

William Fox

May 31, 1935 (1935-05-31)

Merged with Twentieth Century Pictures

20th Century Studios

  • Fox-Case Corporation
  • Fox Movietone Corporation
  • Sunshine Comedy

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 R. 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.

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