The story of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (1919)

Record Details:

Title:
The story of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Date:
1919
Author:
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Publisher:
New York : Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Volume:
The story of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Leaf #:
00021
Language:
English
Subjects:
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation","Motion pictures
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Harold B. Lee Library
Sponsor:
Brigham Young University
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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Interior, Fort Lee Studio Interior, Fifty-sixth Street Studio, New York It is significant of the present quality of the Mack Sennett pictures that a few years ago, when he was just beginning to find his wonderful success, he had twenty-two companies working continually on the production of comedies. However, realizing that quality was more important that quantity, he cut down the number of companies to four, and utilized his vast organization for the production of less than one-fifth the quantity of work. Mack Sennett now personally supervises every one of his productions, which are released one every two weeks. ROSCOE -FATTY" ARBUCKLE Sixteen pictures made by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle have so far been released by Famous Players-Lasky. These comedies, two reels in length, are made by the Comique Film Corporation, Joseph Schenck, president. This company began work in March, 1917, in California, and the product has improved with every picture. Mr. Arbuckle is at present building a new studio at Culver City, where he will have greater production facilities than ever before. Lou Anger is the general manager of the company. Mr. Arbuckle, like all the producers affiliated with Famous Players-Lasky, supervises all of his productions, and he in many cases goes so far as to direct, write, cut and assemble them. The race is not yet completed. Expansion and Improvement—those two watch words of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, are still engraved on the mind of every individual in that organization. Exterior, Fort Lee Studio John Barrvmore in "The Test of Honor' Exterior, Fifty-sixth Street Studio Robert Warwick in "Secret Service" Billie Burke in "The Make-Believe Wife" Marguerite Clark in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"