Butterfly (company)

This article is about the American film company. For the Japanese sporting-goods company, see Butterfly (table tennis equipment manufacturer).
"Butterfly Pictures presenting The Phantom's Secret" ad in Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)

Butterfly also known as Butterfly Pictures was a film production company that produced and released films spanned as part of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company program from 1917 to 1918.

History

On April 28, 1917, Butterfly Pictures was announced in Motography a new brand of feature films that would be released as part of the Universal exchanges. These films would be five reels in length and would be produced at the Universal Film Manufacturing Company studios in California.[1]

List of Butterfly films

Name Release date
(Year/Month/Date) 		Director Braff Index[2][a]
Eternal Love 1917-05-07 Douglas Gerrard 2180
The Phantom's Secret 1917-05-14 Charles Swickard 6167
Like Wild Fire 1917-05-21 Stuart Paton 4608
Money Madness 1917-05-25 Henry McRae 5360
The Circus of Life 1917-06-04 Rupert Julian 1350
The Field of Honor 1917-06-11 Allen J. Holubar 2379
The Flame of Youth 1917-06-23 Elmer Clifton 2533
Man and Beast 1917-06-25 Henry McRae 4982
The Plow Woman 1917-07-02 Charles Swickard 6248
The Reed Case 1917-07-09 Allen J. Holubar 6610
High Speed 1917-07-16 George L. Sargent 3566
The Double Standard 1917-07-23 Phillips Smalley 2005
Follow the Girl 1917-08-06 Louis W. Chaudet 2623
The Midnight Man 1917-08-13 Elmer Clifton 5221
The Lair of the Wolf 1917-08-20 Charles Swickard 4441
Straight Shooting
Alternatively: Joan of the Cattlelands		 1917-08-27 John Ford 7693
Who Was the Other Man? 1917-09-03 Francis Ford 9092
The Little Pirate 1917-09-10 Elsie Jane Wilson 4683
The Spindle of Life 1917-09-17 George Cochrane 7552
The Edge of the Law 1917-09-24 Louis W. Chaudet 2117
The Secret Man 1917-10-01 John Ford 7030
The Girl Who Won Out 1917-10-08 Eugene Moore 2978
Forty Nine-Seventeen ('49-'17) 1917-10-15 Ruth Ann Baldwin 2729
Society's Driftwood 1917-10-22 Louis W. Chaudet 7436
A Marked Man 1917-10-29 John Ford 5070
John Ermine of the Yellowstone 1917-11-05 Francis Ford 4248
The Cricket 1917-11-12 Elsie Jane Wilson 1541
The Man from Montana 1917-11-19 George Marshall 4989
Fear Not 1917-11-26 Allen J. Holubar 2357
Fighting Maid 1917-12-03 Edward J. Le Saint 2443
The Silent Lady 1917-12-10 Elsie Jane Wilson 7250
Beloved Jim 1917-12-17 Stuart Paton 528
Bucking Broadway 1917-12-24 John Ford 973
The High Sign 1917-12-31 Elmer Clifton 3564
The Wolf and His Mate 1918-01-07 Edward J. Le Saint 9257
Madame Spy 1918-01-21 Douglas Gerrard 4936
A Kitchen Hero 1918-04-06 Allen Curtis 4388

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Index listings instead of page numbers are provided for easier referencing of Braff's two volume index.

References

  1. ^ "New Universal Brand". Motography. Electricity Magazine Corp. 1917. p. 898. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  2. ^ Braff, Richard E. (1999). The Universal Silents (Volume 1 and 2). McFarland & Company.


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