Rex Motion Picture Company
Rex Motion Picture Company was an early film production company in the United States.
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Rex Motion Picture Company ad in Moving Picture News, 1911
History
After Edwin S. Porter's short-lived Defender Film Company failed, The Rex Motion Picture Company was established by Edwin S. Porter, Joseph Engel, and William Swanson.[1] Rex, based at 573–579 11th Avenue, New York City.[2] produced dozens of films from 1910 into 1917.[3] It adopted a crown emblem.
Lois Weber established herself in the film industry at Rex.
Rex acquired Gem Motion Picture Company film properties and released them in 1912 under its own banner and later Universal's. Rex was one of the studios that combined to form Universal Pictures under Carl Laemmle's leadership.
Filmography
- By the Light of the Moon (film) (1911)
- Leaves in the Storm (1912), extant
- The Fine Feathers (1912), extant
- A Japanese Idyll (1912), extant
- The Honor of the Family (1912), lost
- Suspense (1913 film), extant
- Symphony of Souls[4] (1914)
- The Heart of the Hills (1914)
- Alas and Alack (1915), partial print is extant
- All for Peggy (1915), lost
- The Stronger Mind (1915), lost
- Cross Purposes (film) (1916)
- Unmasked (1917 film)
References
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Musser, Charles (1991). "13: Postscript". Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press. p. 359. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
- Moving Picture World 8:6 (February 11, 1911): 283.
- "Rex Motion Picture Company". BFI. Archived from the original on October 7, 2019.
- Gmür, Leonhard (November 14, 2013). Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen. epubli. ISBN 9783844246018 – via Google Books.
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