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Fox Film

class=skin-invert | logo_caption = Final logo, used from 1931 to 1935 | industry = Film | predecessors = | fate = Merged with Twentieth Century Pictures | successor = 20th Century-Fox (now 20th Century Studios) | founded = in Fort Lee, New Jersey | founder = William Fox | defunct = | subsid = }} The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American independent company that produced motion pictures and was formed in 1914 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. It was the corporate successor to his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attraction Company (founded 1913).

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, Fox Studios 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 merged the company with Twentieth Century Pictures to form Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation in 1935. Provided by Wikipedia Read More