Rex Motion Picture Company was an early film production company in the United States.
History After Edwin S. Porter's short-lived Defender Film Company failed, The Rex Motion Picture Company was established by Edwin S. Porter, Joseph Engel, and William Swanson. Rex, based at 573–579 11th Avenue, New York City.Moving Picture World 8:6 (February 11, 1911): 283. produced dozens of films from 1910 into 1917. It adopted a crown emblem.
Lois Weber established herself in the film industry at Rex.
Rex acquired Gem Motion Picture Company film properties and released them in 1912 under its own banner and later Universal's. Rex was one of the studios that combined to form Universal Pictures under Carl Laemmle's leadership.
Filmography By the Light of the Moon (film) (1911) The Vagabond (1911), a drama Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1911) Her Way (1911) The Artist Financier (1911), a drama The White Red Man (1911), drama The Colonel's Daughter (1911), a drama Castles in the Air (1911) a comedy Leaves in the Storm (1912), extant The Fine Feathers (1912), extant A Japanese Idyll (1912), extant The Honor of the Family (1912), lost Suspense, extant Symphony of Souls (1914) The Heart of the Hills (1914) Alas and Alack (1915), partial print is extant All for Peggy (1915), lost The Stronger Mind (1915), lost Cross Purposes (1916) Unmasked (1917)
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