Peerless Pictures, originally Peerless Features, was an early film studio in the United States.

Jules Brulatour Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour (April 7, 1870 – October 26, 1946) was a pioneering executive figure in American silent cinema. Beginning as American distribution representative for Lumiere Brothers raw film stock in 1907, he joined producer ...

was a co-founder. The Peerless studio was built in 1914 on Linwood Avenue in

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. The company was merged along with a couple of other early studios into World Pictures.

History

The firm was founded by Brulatour and Eclair president Charles Jourjon as Peerless Features.

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Vitagraph Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...

to join Peerless. At one point the studio publicized plans to develop

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but the land purchase was never completed. The studio buildings burned down on November 23, 1958. A historical marker commemorates the location in Fort Lee, New Jersey where the World Pictures / Peerless studio on Lewis Street was located.

Partial filmography

*'' Hearts in Exile'' (1915) *''

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The Summer Girl ''The Summer Girl'' is a lost 1916 silent film comedy drama directed by Edwin August and starring Mollie King. It was produced by Peerless Pictures Studios and distributed by World Pictures.''Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'', p. 112 c.195 ...

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The Hidden Scar ''The Hidden Scar'' is a 1916 silent film directed by Barry O'Neil and starring Ethel Clayton and Holbrook Blinn. It was distributed by the World Film Company. The film is preserved incomplete in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and ...

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The Scarlet Oath ''The Scarlet Oath'' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Frank Powell and Travers Vale and starring Gail Kane, Philip Hahn and Carleton Macy.Katchmer p.346 Cast * Gail Kane as Olga Pavloff / Nina Pavloff * Philip Hahn as Ivan Pa ...

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References

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