Pilot Films Corporation

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Pilot Films Corporation, also known as Pilot Films Company, ^[1] was a short lived American independent film production company founded in 1913. ^[2] The company was located at 120 School St. in Yonkers, New York. ^[3]

A maker of silent films, the first film it released was The Blacksmith's Story (1913), directed by Travers Vale. ^[2] Producing more than thirty films in the year 1913, it made several films starring the actress Lottie Pickford. ^[2] In addition to making films at its studio in Yonkers, it also leased Balboa Films to create films in California; ^[4] including the 1913 film Hoodman Blind directed by James Gordon. ^[5]

Partial filmography

• The Sure Tip (1913)
• The Bug Professor (1913)
• The Streets of New York (1913), extant with Dutch intertitles from Eye Filmmuseum. ^[6]
• School Days (1913), a comedy
• The Governor's Romance (1913), a drama
• For Old Time's Sake (1913), a drama
• When a Girl Loves (1913), a drama
• Child of the Hills (1913), a drama
• An Innocent Conspiracy (1913)
• The Code of the U.S.A. (1913) ^[7]
• The Power of the Sea (1913)
• Across the Continent (1914), a 4 part adaptation of Oliver Doud Byron's ^[8]

Citations

1. Jura & Bardin, p. 288
2. Anthony Slide (2014). "Pilot Films Corporation". The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   9781135925611.
3. Codori, p. 102
4. Jura & Bardin, p. 17
5. Jura & Bardin, p. 27
6. "Streets of New York". YouTube . 24 June 2016.
7. "The Moving Picture World". 1913.
8. "The Moving Picture World". 1915.

Bibliography

• Jeff Codori (2020). Film History Through Trade Journal Art, 1916-1920. McFarland & Company. ISBN   9781476676173.
• Jean-Jacques Jura & Rodney Norman Bardin II (2015). Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio. McFarland & Company. ISBN   9781476609010.

External links

• List of films made by Pilot Films Corporation at IMDb