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Famous Players
Film Company
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Type of Company
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Production company
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Country of Origination
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United States of America
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Years of Operation
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Formed 1912
Active 1912 through [?] September or October? 1915
Merged [?] September or October? 1915
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Company Principals
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Adolph Zukor, president (circa 1912-1916)
Daniel Frohman, managing director (circa 1912-1916)
Edwin S. Porter, technical director (circa 1914)
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Company Offices
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Times Building, Broadway and 42nd Street, New York, New York, USA (circa 1912)
213-229 West 26th Street, New York, New York, USA (circa 1914)
507 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA (circa 1915-1916)
124-130 West 56th Street, New York, New York, USA (circa 1916)
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Company Studios
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Rooftop of Ninth Regiment Armory, 26th Street near Seventh Avenue, New York, New York, USA (1912 through circa 1913)
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Famous Players Film Company was formed to produce prestige film productions featuring well-known stage performers. Distribution was handled by Paramount Pictures Corporation (circa 1914-1915).
Fire destroyed the Famous Players studio on 11 September 1915. The company was then merged with Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, into Famous Players-Lasky Film Company in [?] September or October? 1915.
References: Brownlow-Parade pp. 126, 238 : Website-AFI.
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