Tilford Cinema Corporation

Tilford Cinema Corporation
IndustryFilm production
Founded1920; 105 years ago (1920)
Headquarters
New York, New York
,
United States
Poster for Ramshackle House

Tilford Cinema Corporation, also known as Tilford Cinema Studios, was a film studio business headquartered in New York City with film operations and studio activity in Miami, Florida.[1] It was a pioneer in the studio for hire contracting system.[2] The business was established in 1920 and was led by Walter Ford Tilford and Thomas W. Switzler.[3]

An ad for its services ran in a 1921 edition of Wid's Yearbook.[4] The business was run by Walter Ford (W. F.) Tilford.[5]

Sets and studio space for filming The Purple Highway were provided by Tilford.[6]

In 1922, Tilford bought out Gotham Pictures.[7]

Wiard Boppo Ihnen became part owner and secretary of the film company.[8]

Tilford used Miami Studios buildings.[9]

The company ran short of financing despite optimism after the three films shot at the Miami studio in 1924 becoming moneymakers. It folded and made no more films.[10]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Slide, Anthony (February 25, 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Routledge. ISBN 9781135925543 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Koszarski, Richard (2008-08-27). "tilford+cinema+corporation"&pg=PA76 Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. ISBN 9780813545523.
  3. ^ "Motion Picture Daily: Formerly Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today". 1921.
  4. ^ "Wid's Year Book". 1921.
  5. ^ Slide, Anthony (2014-02-25). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. ISBN 9781135925543.
  6. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  7. ^ "Moving Picture World (Mar 1922)". New York, Chalmers Publishing Company. November 29, 1922 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ "Special Collections | Margaret Herrick Library | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". collections.oscars.org.
  9. ^ "The Florida Historical Quarterly". July 1982.
  10. ^ Nelson, Richard Alan (1983). "Palm Trees, Public Relations, and Promoters: Boosting Southeast Florida as a Motion Picture Empire, 1910-1930". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 61 (4): 383–403. JSTOR 30140680.
  11. ^ Golden, Eve (2007-11-30). Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution. ISBN 978-0813172699.
  12. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries". 1923.
  13. ^ "Ramshackle House, 1924". silenthollywood.com.