Christie Film Company
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Christie Film Company was an American pioneer motion picture company founded in Hollywood, California by Al Christie and Charles Christie, two brothers from London, Ontario, Canada While Charles served almost exclusively in administration, it was Al Christie who made the films Al had worked with David Horsley at his Centaur Film Company in Bayonne, New Jersey and moved to California in October 27, 1911 to run Nestor Studios, the first ever motion picture studio in Hollywood The firm closed in 1933
Contents
- 1 The Christies in Hollywood
- 2 Demise of company
- 3 Gallery of Female Christie Comics
- 4 References
- 5 External links
The Christies in Hollywoodedit
In June 1912, Nestor Studios became part of the newly formed Universal Film Company and Al Christie was put in charge of the comedy companies He remained with Universal Film until January 1916 at which time he and his brother, Charles Christie, formed their own movie studio named the Christie Film Company The two rented facilities from Universal at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, the place where Al Christie had first started in Hollywood For the first six months of operations, the new Christie Film Company made comedies under a contract with Universal Film In July of that year, the company began producing other comedies to sell to the independent distributors and their immediate success was such that they were soon able to finance the acquisition of their studio property Within a short time, the Christie brothers doubled their stage capacity and constructed a film laboratory equipped with the latest in technology
Unlike some of the "over the top comedies" being produced at the time, Christie Studios emphasized situational comedy that sometimes featured show girls in skimpy costumes As comedy specialists, the Christie Film Company debuted comedy actors Harold Lloyd, Fatty Arbuckle, Anita Garvin and black actor Spencer Williams, later known for his portrayal of Andy Brown in the Amos & Andy" CBS Television series The innovative Christie company began issuing Film Follies, a magazine advertising the latest films and events at the studio
In 1921, Canadian Mary Pickford was a driving force behind the creation of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, an organization designed to help actors who had fallen on hard times Christie Film Company supported this and Charles Christie played a major role, serving on the first Board of Trustees
By 1922, the brothers were so successful that they set up Christie Realty Corporation with $1 million in capital stock
The Christie brothers welcomed Canadian talent and stars such as Marie Dressler and Marie Prevost appeared in their films and became personal lifelong friends Al Christie also hired African-American Spencer Williams as a sound technician but soon recognized Williams' many talents and involved him in script writing In early 1929, the Christie Film Company began making the first series of talking pictures written and conceived exclusively for African-American performers They produced a number of comedy-musical shorts that featured an all-black cast from the Lafayette Players Stock Company out of Harlem, New York The films, based on the popular Saturday Evening Post's Darktown Birmingham stories by Octavus Roy Cohen 1891-1959, were distributed by Paramount Studios
Demise of companyedit
However, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression devastated many businesses and in January 1933, the Christie brothers companies went into receivership and their studio assets were acquired by another large film making companyby whom
Gallery of Female Christie Comicsedit
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Teddy Sampson
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Dorothy Devore
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Ann Christy
Referencesedit
- ^ Standing, left to right: Harry Rattenbury, George French, Anton Nagy cameraman, Al Christie, Eddie Barry, Charles Christie, unidentified cameraman, Horace Davis, unknown, Mr Lyons Seated: Lee Moran, Ukulele Jane, Edie Lyons, Betty Compson, Billie Rhodes, Ray Gallagher, Stella Adams, Neal Burns On the floor: Joseph Janecke, Gus Alexander, unknown
- Paul Zollo, Hollywood Remembered
- Gregory Paul Williams, The Story of Hollywood By Gregory Paul Williams, page 62
External linksedit
- List of Christie Film Company films at IMDB
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