Peerless Pictures, originally Peerless Features,[1] was an early film studio in the United States.[2] Jules Brulatour was a co-founder.[3] The Peerless studio was built in 1914 on Linwood Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey, when the town was the center of America's first motion picture industry. The company was merged along with a couple of other early studios into World Pictures.[4]
History
editThe firm was founded by Brulatour and Eclair president Charles Jourjon as Peerless Features.[5]
Clara Kimball Young left Vitagraph to join Peerless.[6]
At one point the studio publicized plans to develop Starin's Glen Island but the land purchase was never completed.
The studio buildings burned down on November 23, 1958.[7] A historical marker commemorates the location in Fort Lee, New Jersey where the World Pictures / Peerless studio on Lewis Street was located.[8]
Partial filmography
edit- Hearts in Exile (1915)
- Miss Petticoats (1916)
- The Summer Girl (1916)
- The Hidden Scar (1916)
- The Scarlet Oath (1916)
References
edit- ^ Bigham, Randy Bryan (April 11, 2014). Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781105520082.
- ^ Koszarski, Richard (January 30, 2004). Fort Lee: The Film Town. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0861966538.
- ^ Billboard, April 6, 1912, p. 15; Motography, December 5, 1914, p. 766.
- ^ Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry. Arcadia Publishing. April 4, 2006. ISBN 9780738545011 – via Google Books.
- ^ Bigham, Randy Bryan (April 11, 2014). Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781105520082.
- ^ Barton, Ruth (October 3, 2014). Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813147116.
- ^ "World-Peerless". Variety. November 26, 1958. p. 20. Retrieved June 9, 2019 – via Archive.org.
- ^ "World/Peerless & Metropolitan Studios Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
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