Zenith Film Company

Zenith Film Company, also known as Zenith Films, was a British film studio. It released adaptations of successful theatrical shows.[1]

Seymour Hicks was in its 1913 Scrooge film.[2]

Leedham Bantock was a director at the studio.[3][4]

Billy Quirk and Peggy Shaw were contracted for a series of two-reel comedies at the studio.[5]

The company announced plans to make the films Garrick and Joan of Arc. Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss contracted with the studio.[6]

In December 1914, its studio in Woodlands was purchased by British Empire Films.[7]

Filmography

  • Scrooge (1913)[2][8]
  • Always Tell Your Wife
  • Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss[9]
  • Rebecca the Jewess / Ivanhoe (1913)[10][11]
  • From Flower Girl to Red Cross Nurse[12] written by and starring Karine Mile[13]
  • Before Our Time[4]
  • Kismet (1914)[3]
  • A Prehistoric Love Story[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ Low, Rachael (September 13, 2013). "The History of British Film (Volume 2): The History of the British Film 1906 - 1914". Routledge – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Guida, Fred (August 3, 2000). "A Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations: A Critical Examination of Dickens's Story and Its Productions on Screen and Television". McFarland – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Mabilat, Claire (July 5, 2017). "Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts". Routledge – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b "The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality". Ingram brothers. August 3, 1914 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Dramatic Mirror and Theatre World". Dramatic Mirror Incorporated. August 3, 1921 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "The Moving Picture World". Chalmers Publishing Company. August 3, 1913 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.
  8. ^ Longmore, Paul K. (December 28, 2015). "Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Gifford, Denis (October 24, 2018). "The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film". Routledge – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Harty, Kevin J. (August 13, 2015). "The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe". McFarland – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "2001". July 29, 2015.
  12. ^ Edwards, Paul M. (April 11, 2016). "World War I on Film: English Language Releases through 2014". McFarland – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Edwards, Paul M. (April 11, 2016). "World War I on Film: English Language Releases through 2014". McFarland – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Klossner, Michael (January 9, 2015). "Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television: 581 Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905-2004". McFarland – via Google Books.
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