Rex Motion Picture Company
Rex Motion Picture Company was an early film production company in the United States.
History
After Edwin S. Porter's short-lived Defender Film Company failed, The Rex Motion Picture Company was established by Edwin S. Porter, Joseph Engel, and William Swanson.
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Rex, based at 573–579 11th Avenue, New York City.
[http://100yearoldmovies.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/a-heroine-of-76-rex Moving Picture World 8:6] (February 11, 1911): 283.
produced dozens of films from 1910 into 1917.
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It adopted a crown emblem.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
Lois Weber established herself in the film industry at Rex.
Rex acquired Gem Motion Picture Company film properties and released them in 1912 under its own banner and later Universal's.{{cn|date=April 2022}} Rex was one of the studios that combined to form Universal Pictures under Carl Laemmle's leadership.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
Filmography
- By the Light of the Moon (film) (1911)
- The Vagabond (1911), a drama
- Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1911)
- Her Way (1911)
- The Artist Financier (1911), a drama
- The White Red Man (1911), drama
- The Colonel's Daughter (1911), a drama{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UClJAQAAMAAJ&q=rex+film+castles&pg=RA8-PA40 | title=Motion Picture News | date=1911 }}
- Castles in the Air (1911){{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UClJAQAAMAAJ&q=rex+film&pg=RA8-PA40 | title=Motion Picture News | date=1911 }} a comedy
- Leaves in the Storm (1912), extant
- ''The Fine Feathers (1912), extant
- A Japanese Idyll (1912), extant
- The Honor of the Family (1912), lost
- Suspense, extant
- Symphony of Souls{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjkgAgAAQBAJ&q=Rex+Motion+Picture+Company&pg=PA463|title=Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen|first=Leonhard|last=Gmür|date=November 14, 2013|publisher=epubli|isbn=9783844246018|via=Google Books}} (1914)
- The Heart of the Hills (1914)
- Alas and Alack (1915), partial print is extant
- All for Peggy (1915), lost
- The Stronger Mind (1915), lost
- Cross Purposes (1916)
- Unmasked (1917)