Draft:Raver Film Corporation
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Harry R. Raver was a leader of film companies in the United States. He started his own film company.
It acquired W. Lindsay Gordon's studio on Staten Island.[1] Gordon led Beaver Film Company and was a maker of lecture slides.[2]
It acquired films from Ocean Film Company including Driftwood.[3]
The company issued stock. A stock certificate from it is extant.[4]
Filmography
[edit]- The Other Girl (1915 or 1916)
- The Public Defender
- ''As a Man Thinks (1919), an adaptation from Augustus Thomas
Raver Film Corporation was a film production company in the United States. It was led by Harry R. Raver. The company acquired the rights to adapt works by Augustus Thomas to film in a blockbuster deal.[1]
The company arranged with the Austrian government for the U.S. release of war footage from Hungary.[1]
Filmography
[edit]- Life Without Soul (1916 reissue with additional footage}
- The Other Girl (1915 or 1916) starring boxer James J. Corbett,[5] Paul Gilmore, and Becky Bruce, an adaptation of Augustus Thomas' play directed by Percy Winter[1]
- Driftwood an adaptation of '
Driftwood by Owen Davis, an Ocean Film Corporation production???
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Nickelodeon". January 27, 1916 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Nickelodeon". January 27, 1915 – via Google Books.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ "Raver Film Corporation". Ghosts of Wall Street.
- ^ Fields, Armond (July 6, 2017). "James J. Corbett: A Biography of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Popular Theater Headliner". McFarland – via Google Books.