LC control no. | n 85173942 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Goldwyn Pictures Corporation |
See also | Product of a merger: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Founder: Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974 Founder: Selwyn, Edgar, 1875-1944 Founder: Selwyn, Archibald, 1877-1959 |
Biography/History note | Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company. The company was established in 1916 by Samuel Goldwyn, Edgar Selwyn, and Archibald Selwyn with headquarters in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1924 the company merged with Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. |
Beginning date | 1916 |
Ending date | 1924 |
Located | Fort Lee (N.J.) |
Field of activity | Motion picture--Production and direction |
Found in | Polly of the circus [MP] 1917 (name not given) American film-index 1916-1920, 1984 (Goldwyn Pictures Corp.) Slide, A. The American film industry, 1986 (Goldwyn Pictures Corporation; formed December, 1916; in 1924, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Metro Pictures Corporation and independent producer Louis B. Mayer joined to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Wikipedia, Jan. 28, 2011 (Goldwyn Pictures; founded by Samuel Goldfish, Edgar Selwyn, and Archibald Selwyn; headquarters in Fort Lee, New Jersey; production company) |