[Stock Book]: Triangle Distributing Corporation Preferred

Published by W.N. Perrin & Company, New York, 1915

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Film corporation stock book. Oblong octavo. Green boards with red canvas spine and gilt lettering. Wear to the extremities, staple holes on the front endpapers and light tidemarks, 45 of 50 stock certificates still attached along with the receipts of four others, very good plus. A stock book for the Triangle Distributing Corporation, the distribution arm of the Triangle Film Corporation, the first vertically integrated film production company, founded by D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, and Thomas Ince in 1915. The idea was that by producing feature-length films with the industry's premiere talent, including Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and others, Triangle could charge more per picture. The studio produced several notable films but mismanagement and losses from Griffith's epic *Intolerance* doomed the venture by 1918. Accompanied by a copy of the book, *Dreams for Sale: The Rise and Fall of the Triangle Film Corporation* by Kalton C. Lahue. An interesting document from the nascent days of silent films. …

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Title
[Stock Book]: Triangle Distributing Corporation Preferred
Author
(GRIFFITH, D.W., Mack Sennett, and Thomas Ince)
Publisher
W.N. Perrin & Company, New York
Publication year
1915
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
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