Premium Picture Productions

{{Short description|1920s movie studio in Beaverton, Oregon}}

Premium Picture Productions is a former movie studio located in Beaverton, Oregon, which was active in the early 1920s. It was founded in 1921, with J.J. Fleming as president and Dr. G.E. Watts and three others as directors of the corporation,"Film Company Floated". (August 3, 1921). The Morning Oregonian, p. 11. and it opened its production lot in 1922.{{cite news|last=Nelson|first=Don|title=Of planes, trains, films and farms: Beaverton's past includes a movie studio, airport, rail to Portland and produce|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1206145520204260.xml&coll=7|accessdate=December 11, 2013|newspaper=The Sunday Oregonian|date=March 30, 2008}} The company went out of business in late 1925.{{cite book|last=Mapes|first=Virginia|title=Chakeipi ("the Place of the Beaver"): The History of Beaverton, Oregon|year=1993|publisher=City of Beaverton|pages=131–134|chapter=Chapter 15: Premium Picture Productions|oclc=28908244}} The studio produced approximately fifteen silent films, including the following:

• The Flash (1922)
• Crashing Courage (1923)
• Flames of Passion (1923)
• The Frame-Up (1923)
• The Power Divine (1923)
• The Range Patrol (1923)
• Scars of Hate (1923)
• The Vow of Vengeance (1923)
• The Way of the Transgressor (1923)
• Beaten (1924)
• Harbor Patrol (1924)
• The Trail of Vengeance (1924)
• Shackles of Fear (1924)
• Phantom Shadows (1925)
• The Fighting Parson (or The Fighting Romeo) (1925),{{IMDb title|0132949|The Fighting Romeo|(1925)}} starring Al Ferguson

Many of their films were directed by Harry Moody (also credited as H.G. Moody) and William James Craft.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}