{{Short description|American film production company}} [[File:Rex Motion Picture Company ad in Moving Picture News (1911) (IA movingpicturenew04unse) (page 88 crop).jpg|thumb|262x262px|Rex Motion Picture Company ad in ''Moving Picture News'', 1911]] '''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.<ref> {{cite book |last1=Musser |first1=Charles |author1-link=Charles Musser |title=Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company |date=1991 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford |page=359 |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3q2nb2gw&chunk.id=d0e17287&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e17287&brand=ucpress <!-- http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3q2nb2gw/ --> |access-date=17 April 2022 |chapter=13: Postscript |quote=UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004}} </ref> Rex, based at 573–579 11th Avenue, New York City.<ref> [http://100yearoldmovies.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/a-heroine-of-76-rex ''Moving Picture World'' 8:6] (February 11, 1911): 283.<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--> </ref> produced dozens of films from 1910 into 1917.<ref> {{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b94573b78|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007184120/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b94573b78|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 7, 2019|title=Rex Motion Picture Company|website=BFI}} </ref> It adopted a crown emblem.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
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.{{cn|date=April 2022}} Rex was one of the studios that combined to form Universal Pictures under Carl Laemmle's leadership.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
==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<ref name=eleven>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UClJAQAAMAAJ&q=rex+film+castles&pg=RA8-PA40 | title=Motion Picture News | date=1911 }}</ref> *''Castles in the Air'' (1911)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UClJAQAAMAAJ&q=rex+film&pg=RA8-PA40 | title=Motion Picture News | date=1911 }}</ref> 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''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjkgAgAAQBAJ&q=Rex+Motion+Picture+Company&pg=PA463|title=Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen|first=Leonhard|last=Gmür|date=November 14, 2013|publisher=epubli|isbn=9783844246018|via=Google Books}}</ref> (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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