Equitable Motion Picture Company was a short-lived but influential

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

company. It was launched in 1915. It was headed by Arthur Spiegel. It distributed its films through

William A. Brady William Aloysius Brady (June 19, 1863 – January 6, 1950) was an American theater actor, producer, and sports promoter. Biography Brady was born to a newspaperman in 1863. His father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought him to New Yo ...

World Film Company The World Film Company or World Film Corporation was an American film production and distribution company, organized in 1914 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Short-lived but significant in American film history, World Film was created by financier and fi ...

. It was acquired by World Film in 1916, with the agreement signed on January 29, 1916, afterwards it was consolidated under Brady's control. In 1915 the startup film company signed

Margarita Fischer Margarita Fisher (née Fischer, February 12, 1886 – March 11, 1975) was an American actress in silent motion pictures and stage productions. Newspapers sometimes referred to her as "Babe" Fischer. Early life Margarita Fischer was born on Fe ...

and Harry Pollard, and also signed

Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young (born Edith Matilda Clara Kimball; September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960) was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era. Early life Edith Matilda Clara Kimball was born in Chicago on Septemb ...

It took over the Horsley (

David Horsley David Horsley (March 11, 1873 – February 23, 1933) was an English pioneer of the film industry. He founded the Centaur Film Company and its West Coast branch, the Nestor Film Company, which established the first film studio in Hollywood in ...

) studio in Bayonne, New Jersey. Cinematographer William C. Foster worked for Equitable.

Filmography

*''The Warning'' (1915) *''

The Cowardly Way ''The Cowardly Way'' is a lost 1915 silent film drama directed by John Ince and starring Florence Reed. Plot Cast *Florence Reed Florence Reed (January 10, 1883 – November 21, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. She is rem ...

'' (1915) *''

The Woman in 47 ''The Woman in 47'', reissued as ''The Mysterious Woman'', is a 1916 silent film directed by George Irving for Equitable Motion Picture Company and Frohman Amusement Corporation. It was filmed at Peerless Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The ...

'' (1916) *''The Shadow of a Doubt'' (1916)

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External links

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Silent film studios American companies established in 1915 1915 establishments in New York (state) 1916 disestablishments in New York (state) Defunct film and television production companies of the United States American companies disestablished in 1916