| The California based Twentieth Century Fox Film | | | | actor of this company Will Rogers was killed in a plane |
| Corporation formed after the merger of two | | | | crash and the leading actress Janet Gaynor also |
| companies Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth | | | | began losing popularity. Zanuck then decided to sign up |
| Century Pictures in 1935. Darryl F. Zanuck, Raymond | | | | new artists with some fresh talent. That was when |
| Griffith, William Goetz and Joseph Schenck started the | | | | Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, Henry Fonda, Sonja |
| Twentieth Century Pictures in 1933 and the Fox Film | | | | Henie, and Don Ameche became a part of the |
| Corporation's founder was William Fox who founded it | | | | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. They made |
| in the year 1915. | | | | many musical-dramas and movies on famous |
| William Fox built many theaters and created many | | | | biographies, which became huge hit with the audiences. |
| legends in his impressive career. Sound Fox bought the | | | | The fortune of the company was rising rapidly and it |
| rights of a German film sound processing technique | | | | became the third profitable studio of America, by |
| and Fox was able to produce movies with music and | | | | overtaking RKO and MGM. During the World War II, |
| effect track in 1926. The company was growing and | | | | Zanuck went to serve the country and his partner |
| more land was required for expanding. He bought | | | | William Goetz took over the company. He made many |
| around three hundred acre of land in Beverly Hills | | | | lighthearted movies. But after Zanuck returned from |
| where he built the Movietone City. After the death of | | | | the war, he wanted to produce some serious |
| his rival, Marcus Loew, William thought of buying | | | | entertainment and made movies like "Gentleman's |
| Loew's Inc. It had nearly two hundred theaters and | | | | Agreement", "Pinky", "Wilson" and "Boomerang" which |
| also MGM studios under it. The deal was made and | | | | also fell into adult films category. |
| the companies were officially merged in 1929. But the | | | | After the World War, public were more attracted to |
| owner of MGM studios, Louis B. Mayer, wasn't happy | | | | television. Fox started experimenting on new ideas so |
| with this idea and he revolted by calling on the Justice | | | | as to bring the crowd back to the theater. With the |
| Department's anti-trust unit and using political influence. | | | | help of three projectors the movie was projected on a |
| Luck wasn't on William's side and he was injured in a | | | | huge concave curve, which created the illusion of |
| car crash and by the time he was back to normal | | | | three-dimensional character. The effect was achieved |
| again the stock market crashed and he was totally | | | | without polarized glasses with the help of French |
| bankrupt. He lost all his fortune and was even had to | | | | anamorphic projection, and this feature was named |
| go to jail. The only way out was to merge with | | | | Cinemascope. They made other theater owners to |
| another larger company. This is when the merger of | | | | switch to this technology and also bore the conversion |
| Twentieth Century and Fox took place. Fox had nearly | | | | costs. "The Robe" and "How to Marry a Millionaire" |
| two hundred theaters under its belt, but at that time the | | | | were the first experimental films using this technology. |
| Twentieth Century was in better financial condition, so | | | | After seeing their success other rival studios also |
| the name of the new company was Twentieth | | | | adopted this technique. Although this attracted |
| Century Fox Film Corporation, which began functioning | | | | audiences for a while the numbers started to diminish |
| on May 31, 1935. Schenck became the chief executive | | | | again by 1956. The same year Zanuck announced his |
| and Zanuck was the head of production. The leading | | | | resignation. |