Draft:Raver Film Corporation
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Harry R. Raver was a leader of film companies in the United States. He started his own film company.
It acquired W. Lindsay Gordon's studio on Staten Island.[1] Gordon led Beaver Film Company and was a maker of lecture slides.[2]
It acquired films from Ocean Film Company including Driftwood.[3]
The company issued stock. A stock certificate from it is extant.[4]
Filmography
[edit]- The Other Girl (1915 or 1916)
- The Public Defender
- ''As a Man Thinks (1919), an adaptation from Augustus Thomas
Raver Film Corporation was a film production company in the United States. It was led by Harry R. Raver. The company acquired the rights to adapt works by Augustus Thomas to film in a blockbuster deal.[1]
The company arranged with the Austrian government for the U.S. release of war footage from Hungary.[1]
Filmography
[edit]- Life Without Soul (1916 reissue with additional footage}
- The Other Girl (1915 or 1916) starring boxer James J. Corbett,[5] Paul Gilmore, and Becky Bruce, an adaptation of Augustus Thomas' play directed by Percy Winter[1]
- Driftwood an adaptation of '
Driftwood by Owen Davis, an Ocean Film Corporation production???
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d https://books.google.com/books?id=a3lJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA466&dq="raver+film+corporation"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwit3LT1wd6KAxXYSTABHVp3GB4Q6AF6BAgGEAI
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=JnhJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA409&dq=w.+lindsay+gordon+staten+island+film&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicoZ_Iyt6KAxVrp7AFHV2gPY8Q6AF6BAgFEAI
- ^ https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/17139
- ^ https://ghostsofwallstreet.com/products/raver-film-corporation?srsltid=AfmBOor1GWhNG_o96BW-u1l29GFdNutHkm1Rc_QdlSaUN62cBXGyCDli
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=cGb1vlSofswC&pg=PA186&dq=james+j.+corbett+"the+other+girl"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw2oGrv96KAxVnRDABHUylAhQQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=james%20j.%20corbett%20"the%20other%20girl"&f=false