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Mascot Pictures

Mascot Pictures Corporation was an American film company of the 1920s and 1930s, best known for producing and distributing film serials and B-westerns. Mascot was formed in 1927 by film producer Nat Levine. In 1935, it merged with several other companies to form Republic Pictures.

Industry

1927 (1927)

1935 (1935)

Merged

First: Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
Later: Studio City, Los Angeles, California, United States

Mascot's serial The King of the Kongo (1929) was the first serial to include sound, beating Universal Studios by several months.


The company's logo featured a roaring tiger resting on top of a model of the planet Earth.

Early years[edit]

Mascot was created in 1927 by Nat Levine, a former personal secretary to Marcus Loew, after the success of his independent serial The Silent Flyer (1926).


In the beginning the company operated out of the upstairs offices of a contractor's business on Santa Monica Boulevard. It rented all of its equipment and facilities.


In 1929 the studio made serial history with the production of The King of the Kongo. This was the first serial, from any production company, to be made with sound. Mascot's first all-talking production was The Phantom of the West (1931)

Gene Autry

Smiley Burnette

John Wayne

(1926) was created by Nat Levine but was not in the strict sense of the word a Mascot production.

The Silent Flyer

Additionally,

includes a list of serials produced by Mascot.

List of film serials by studio

The Vanishing Legion: A History of Mascot Pictures 1927–1935; Tuska, Jon; 1999 (McFarland Classics);  978-0-7864-0749-1

ISBN

Mascot Pictures at the Internet Movie Database

Mascot Pictures at (re)Search my Trash

Nat Levine & Mascot Pictures at B-Westerns