20th Century Fox History,"A Dream Is Born"
It's all started from a tiny theatre on New York's lower east side .A 25 year old William Fox amazed audiences with his magical hand craked films. The initial stages were humble – folding chairs, a painted wall for a screen -- but the aspiration to entertain and move people has been at the core of what 20th Century Fox has been doing ever since. By 1915 Fox’s five-cent movie shows were wildly popular and his single screen grew first into a chain of 25 theatres around New York City and then into a movie making business After a bank-mandated reorganization, under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners merged Fox Film with Twentieth Century Pictures to form The Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Joe Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck retained their roles as chief executive and head of production, respectively. The latter company was founded in 1915 by William Fox , a New York City exhibitor who had begun distributing films in 1904 and producing...