Equitable Motion Picture Corporation

{{Short description|Silent film company launched in 1915}}

Equitable Motion Picture Company was a short-lived but influential silent film company. It was launched in 1915.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JZksAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JZksAAAAYAAJ/page/n44 631]|title=The Moving Picture World|year=1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|via=Internet Archive}} It was headed by Arthur Spiegel.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3lJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA363|title=Motography|date=1 January 2019|via=Google Books}} It distributed its films through William A. Brady's World Film Company. It was acquired by World Film in 1916, with the agreement signed on January 29, 1916, afterwards it was consolidated under Brady's control.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/01/29/archives/world-film-in-merger-acquires-stock-of-the-equitable-a-spiegel.html|title=WORLD FILM IN MERGER.; Acquires Stock of the Equitable -- A. Spiegel Heads New Concern.|date=29 January 1916|newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qgbAQAAMAAJ&dq=Equitable+Motion+Pictures+Corporation+william+brady&pg=PA410|title=The Moving Picture World|date=1 January 2019|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}

In 1915 the startup film company signed Margarita Fischer and Harry Pollard,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLG0nI2ZYoEC&dq=Equitable+Motion+Pictures+Corporation&pg=PA76|title=Margarita Fischer: A Biography of the Silent Film Star|first=Theresa St|last=Romain|date=1 January 2019|publisher=McFarland|via=Google Books|isbn=9780786435524}} and also signed Clara Kimball Young It took over the Horsley (David Horsley) studio in Bayonne, New Jersey.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnzsAgAAQBAJ&dq=Equitable+Motion+Pictures+Corporation&pg=PA235|title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry|first=Anthony|last=Slide|date=25 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books|isbn=9781135925543}}

Cinematographer William C. Foster worked for Equitable.