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Not to be confused with Sam Efrus' Peerless Pictures Corporation of the 1930s.
Peerless Pictures , originally Peerless Features ,
[1] was an early film studio in the United States.
[2]
Jules Brulatour was a co-founder.
[3] The Peerless studio was built in 1914 on Linwood Avenue in
Fort Lee, New Jersey , when the town was the center of
America's first motion picture industry . The company was merged along with a couple of other early studios into
World Pictures .
[4]
History
The firm was founded by Brulatour and
Eclair president
Charles Jourjon as Peerless Features.
[5]
Clara Kimball Young left
Vitagraph to join Peerless.
[6]
At one point the studio publicized plans to develop
Starin's Glen Island but the land purchase was never completed.
The studio buildings burned down on November 23, 1958.
[7] A historical marker commemorates the location in Fort Lee, New Jersey where the World Pictures / Peerless studio on Lewis Street was located.
[8]
Partial filmography
References
^ Bigham, Randy Bryan (April 11, 2014).
Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson . Lulu.com.
ISBN
9781105520082 .
^ Koszarski, Richard (January 30, 2004).
Fort Lee: The Film Town . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0861966538 .
^ Billboard , April 6, 1912, p. 15; Motography , December 5, 1914, p. 766.
^
Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry . Arcadia Publishing. April 4, 2006.
ISBN
9780738545011 – via Google Books.
^ Bigham, Randy Bryan (April 11, 2014).
Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson . Lulu.com.
ISBN
9781105520082 .
^ Barton, Ruth (October 3, 2014).
Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen . University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
9780813147116 .
^
"World-Peerless" .
Variety . November 26, 1958. p. 20. Retrieved June 9, 2019 – via
Archive.org .
^
"World/Peerless & Metropolitan Studios Historical Marker" . www.hmdb.org .