General Film Company

Not to be confused with General Film Distributors.
Poster for The Locked Heart (1918), starring child actress Gloria Joy and the film's director, Henry King

The General Film Company was a motion picture distribution company in the United States. Between 1909 and 1920, the company distributed almost 12,000 silent era motion pictures. It was created as part of the Edison Trust to monopolize film distribution.[a]

  1. ^ "General Film Laboratories Formed, Opens Big Plant". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. Hollywood, Los Angeles. April 6, 1953. p. 2. Retrieved July 12, 2023 – via newspapers.com.


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