Selznick Movie Office National Photo Company Collection Washington D.c. January 1920-2013

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Selznick Movie Office National Photo Company Collection Washington D.c. January 1920-2013

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David Lee Guss

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Photograph - Photography

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Selznick Pictures Corporation was located in the building in the center of the picture.

In 1914 Lewis Selznick "founded World Film Company, a film distribution company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in the early part of the 20th century. He soon merged with the Peerless Pictures Studios and the Shubert Brothers, Shubert Pictures Co.

Selznick's company became very successful, in 1915 hiring Sidney Olcott away from Kalem Studios plus the French director Maurice Tourneur away from the American arm of the giant, Pathe. By 1916, personality conflicts with his partners saw him ousted from the firm by the Board of Directors.

Lewis Selznick continued in film on the East Coast until 1920 when he moved to Hollywood, California where he teamed up with Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. However, within a few years his company, Lewis J. Selznick Productions, Inc., experienced severe financial difficulties and went bankrupt in 1925. He retired from the business and died in Los Angeles, California in 1933.

His eldest son, Myron Selznick (1898-1944), would work as a producer and studio executive until establishing a successful talent agency. His second son, David O. Selznick (1902-1965), became a notable Hollywood filmmaker, producing Gone with the Wind (1939)."

Both sons were driven to avenge their father's bankruptcy at the hands of ruthless Hollywood.

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