20th Century FoxAND UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

20th Century Fox

Big Five

Joseph, Darryl, William

Formed in 1935

Fox and Twentieth Century

William Fox Zanuck’s

20th Century formed 1933

What has come from Fox?

Avatar, X-men, Die hard

Family guy, 24, X-files

Shirley Temple

Marilyn Monroe

Dorothy Dandridge

Humble Beginnings

Greater New York Film CorporationFox Office Attractions Company

Sound-on-film

Tri-ergon

Fox Movietone news

Merger or not?

Loew died 1927

Agreed 1929

CAR CRASH

No merger

Universal

Beginnings

Founded by Carl, Mark, Charles, Adam, Pat, Will, David, Jules.

New York, president of universal Laemmle

Everyone else bought out

Vertically integrated company

Production, Distribution, Exhibition

Hollywood

Focused heavily on Hollywood

In 1915 he opened Universal City Studios

230 acres

Open to tourists

Melodramas, westerns, serials

Bankrupt Erich von Stroheim

Installed in Germany

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Originally by Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse created

Disney overtook Universal

And that was a brief history of Universal and Fox.

Thank you for watching.

Also that is Warner Brothers Not FOX or Universal, but oh well.