# Rex Motion Picture Company

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{{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](/source/Moving_Picture_News)'', 1911]]
'''Rex Motion Picture Company''' was an early film production company in the United States.

==History==
After [Edwin S. Porter](/source/Edwin_S._Porter)'s short-lived ''Defender Film Company'' failed, The Rex Motion Picture Company was established by [Edwin S. Porter](/source/Edwin_S._Porter), Joseph Engel, and [William Swanson](/source/William_Swanson_(distributor)).<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](/source/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](/source/Lois_Weber) established herself in the film industry at Rex.

Rex acquired [Gem Motion Picture Company](/source/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](/source/Universal_Pictures) under [Carl Laemmle](/source/Carl_Laemmle)'s leadership.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

==Filmography==
* ''[By the Light of the Moon (film)](/source/By_the_Light_of_the_Moon_(film))'' (1911)
*''The Vagabond'' (1911), a drama
*''[Sherlock Holmes, Jr.](/source/Sherlock_Holmes%2C_Jr.)'' (1911)
*''[Her Way](/source/Her_Way_(1911_film))'' (1911)
*''The Artist Financier'' (1911), a drama
*''[The White Red Man](/source/The_White_Red_Man)'' (1911), drama
*''[The Colonel's Daughter](/source/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](/source/Castles_in_the_Air_(1911_film))'' (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](/source/Leaves_in_the_Storm)'' (1912), extant
* ''[The Fine Feathers](/source/The_Fine_Feathers)'' (1912), extant
* ''[A Japanese Idyll](/source/A_Japanese_Idyll)'' (1912), extant
* ''[The Honor of the Family](/source/The_Honor_of_the_Family)'' (1912), lost
* ''[Suspense](/source/Suspense_(1913_film))'', extant
* ''[Symphony of Souls](/source/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](/source/The_Heart_of_the_Hills_(1914_film))'' (1914)
* ''[Alas and Alack](/source/Alas_and_Alack)'' (1915), partial print is extant
* ''[All for Peggy](/source/All_for_Peggy)'' (1915), lost
* ''[The Stronger Mind](/source/The_Stronger_Mind)'' (1915), lost
* ''[Cross Purposes](/source/Cross_Purposes_(film))'' (1916)
* ''[Unmasked](/source/Unmasked_(1917_film))'' (1917)

==References==
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Category:Mass media companies established in 1910
Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 1917
Category:Defunct American film studios
Category:Film production companies of the United States
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