Fine Arts Film Company

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Fine Arts Film Company
Industry Film
Headquarters,
United States
Products Silent films
Parent Triangle Film Corporation

Fine Arts Film Company produced dozens of movies during the silent film era in the United States. It was one of the film production studios in Triangle Film Corporation, each run by one of the parent company's vice-presidents: D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince, and Mack Sennett. [1] Fine Arts was Griffith's studio and was located on Sunset Boulevard. It was often billed as Triangle Fine Arts.

Douglas Fairbanks debuted in The Lamb (1915). [1]

A 1916 edition of Camera Craft noted Griffiths leadership of the studio and its filmmaking in the wake of his success with The Birth of a Nation . It also featured photos of the studio's still photographers and one of its stages. [2]

Christy Cabanne was a director with the studio until he left for Metro Pictures Corporation. [3]

Actors with the studio included William A. Lowry. [4]

Partial filmography

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References

  1. 1 2 "Douglas Fairbanks Sr. at Triangle-Fine Arts: His First Year at the Movies". m.obscurehollywood.net.
  2. "Camera Craft". Fayette J. Clute. April 15, 1916 via Google Books.
  3. "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. April 15, 1916 via Google Books.
  4. "The Movie Magazine: A National Motion Picture Magazine ..." Movie Magazine Publishing Company, Incorporated. April 22, 1915 via Google Books.
  5. "Fine Arts Film Company". BFI. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019.