Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation (also known as CBC Film Sales or simply CBC) was an American
film studio
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that was founded on June 19, 1918 by brothers
Harry
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and
Jack Cohn
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Cohn was born in New York, the son of Joseph, a Jewish tailor from Germany, and ...
and their friend and co-worker at
Independent Moving Pictures
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(later became
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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),
Joe Brandt
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, with capital of $250 ($ in dollars).
The headquarters were at 1600 Broadway in New York.
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Brandt was the president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. CBC Film's early productions were low-budget short subjects: '' Screen Snapshots'' (started in 1920),][ the "Hall Room Boys" (the vaudeville duo of Edward Flanagan and ]Neely Edwards
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Edwards appeared in 174 films between 1915 and 1959. The first was as an unbilled player in a Harold L ...
), and the Chaplin imitator Billy West
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. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio at 6070 Sunset Boulevard in 1922.film exchange
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s.[
Among Hollywood's elite, the studio's small-time reputation led some to joke that "CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage". The studio's last film to be released was '']Innocence
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'' on December 1, 1923. The Cohn brothers changed the name of CBC Film Sales to Columbia Pictures
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on January 10, 1924, with a view toward improving its image.
Filmography
References
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