Equitable Motion Picture Company was a short-lived but influential
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
company. It was launched in 1915. It was headed by
Arthur Spiegel
Arthur Henry Spiegel I was a Chicago mail-order businessman and early American film studio executive.
Biography
Spiegel was the youngest son of Jewish businessman Joseph Spiegel, founder of the Spiegel Home Furnishings merchandising house ba ...
. It distributed its films through
William A. Brady's
World Film Company
The World Film Company or World Film Corporation was an American film production and distribution company, organized in 1914 in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Short-lived but significant in American film history, World Film was created by financier and fil ...
.
It was acquired by World Film in 1916, with the agreement signed on January 29, 1916, afterwards it was consolidated under Brady's control.
In 1915 the startup film company signed
Margarita Fischer
Margarita Fisher (née Fischer, February 12, 1886 – March 11, 1975) was an American actress in silent motion pictures and stage productions. Newspapers sometimes referred to her as "Babe" Fischer.
Early life
Margarita Fischer was born on Fe ...
and
Harry Pollard, and also signed
Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball Young (born Edith Matilda Clara Kimball;
September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960) was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era.
Early life
Edith Matilda Clara Kimball was born in Chicago on Septembe ...
It took over the Horsley (
David Horsley
David Horsley (March 11, 1873 – February 23, 1933) was an English pioneer of the film industry. He founded the Centaur Film Company and its West Coast branch, the Nestor Film Company, which established the first film studio in Hollywood in 1 ...
) studio in
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne ( ) is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is situated on a peninsula located between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill Van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east. As of ...
.
Cinematographer
William C. Foster worked for Equitable.
Filmography
*''The Warning'' (1915)
*''
The Cowardly Way
''The Cowardly Way'' is a lost 1915 silent film drama directed by John Ince and starring Florence Reed.
Plot
Cast
* Florence Reed - Eunice Fielding
*Isabel MacGregor - Marjorie Harcourt
*Maude Hill - Nance St. Germain
*Bennett Southard - Hac ...
'' (1915)
*''
The Woman in 47
''The Woman in 47'', reissued as ''The Mysterious Woman'', is a 1916 silent film directed by George Irving for Equitable Motion Picture Company and Frohman Amusement Corporation. It was filmed at Peerless Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Th ...
'' (1916)
*''The Shadow of a Doubt'' (1916)
References
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External links
IMDb page
Silent film studios
American companies established in 1915
1915 establishments in New York (state)
1916 disestablishments in New York (state)
Defunct film and television production companies of the United States
American companies disestablished in 1916