Tilford Cinema Corporation

Tilford Cinema Corporation, also known as Tilford Cinema Studios, was a film studio business headquartered in New York City with film operations and studio activity in Miami, Florida.[1] It was a pioneer in the studio for hire contracting system.[2] The business was established in 1920 and was led by Walter Ford Tilford and Thomas W. Switzler.[3]

Poster for Ramshackle House

An ad for its services ran in a 1921 edition of Wid's Yearbook.[4] The business was run by Walter Ford (W. F.) Tilford.[5]

Sets and studio space for filming The Purple Highway were provided by Tilford.[6]

In 1922, Tilford bought out Gotham Pictures.[7]

Wiard Boppo Ihnen became part owner and secretary of the film company.[8]

Tilford used Miami Studios buildings.[9]

The company ran short of financing despite optimism after the three films shot at the Miami studio in 1924 becoming moneymakers. It folded and made no more films.[10]

Filmography

References
  1. Slide, Anthony (February 25, 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Routledge. ISBN 9781135925543 – via Google Books.
  2. Koszarski, Richard (2008-08-27). "tilford+cinema+corporation"#v=onepage Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. ISBN 9780813545523.
  3. "Motion Picture Daily: Formerly Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today". 1921.
  4. "Wid's Year Book". 1921.
  5. Slide, Anthony (2014-02-25). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. ISBN 9781135925543.
  6. "AFI|Catalog".
  7. "Moving Picture World (Mar 1922)". New York, Chalmers Publishing Company. November 29, 1922 – via Internet Archive.
  8. "Special Collections | Margaret Herrick Library | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". collections.oscars.org.
  9. "The Florida Historical Quarterly". July 1982.
  10. Nelson, Richard Alan (1983). "Palm Trees, Public Relations, and Promoters: Boosting Southeast Florida as a Motion Picture Empire, 1910-1930". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 61 (4): 383–403. JSTOR 30140680.
  11. Golden, Eve (2007-11-30). Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution. ISBN 978-0813172699.
  12. "Catalog of Copyright Entries". 1923.
  13. "Ramshackle House, 1924". silenthollywood.com.
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