Name
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
Home Trust Company (Author)
Carnegie Corporation of New York (Author)
Title
Carnegie General Donations, Gifts and Grants to Educational Pictures
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context
Series II. Files on Microfilm. II.A. Gifts and Grants. II.A.5. General Donations
Subjects
Endowments; Motion pictures--Distribution; Instructional films; United States; Educational Pictures (Firm)
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Educational Pictures (or Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. or Educational Films Corporation of America) was an American film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882–1962). Educational primarily distributed short subjects, an d today is probably best known for its series of 1930s comedies starring Buster Keaton, as well as for a series of one-reel comedies featuring the earliest screen appearances of Shirley Temple. The studio also distributed short comedies starring Lloyd Hamilton, who employed the blacklisted 'Fatty' Arbuckle as a writer-director under the pseudonym William Goodrich... Earle Hammons originally established the company to make instructional films for schools, but making comedies for theatrical release proved more lucrative. Educational did indeed issue many educational, travelogue, and novelty shorts, but its main enterprise was comedy..." [SOURCE: "Educational Pictures." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Pictures. Accessed 8 Nov. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
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Also In
Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-27h4-fe33