Rayart Pictures
Type | Film production |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 1924 |
Founder | W. Ray Johnston |
Defunct | 1933 |
Fate | merged with Sono Art-World Wide Pictures and acquired by Monogram Pictures |
Rayart Pictures was one of the early film production and distribution companies operating independently of the major Hollywood studios in the United States during the later silent film era from the mid-to-late 1920s and into the early "talkies" era of early films with sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It established its own distribution network,[1] specialising in westerns.[2] It was begun by W. Ray Johnston in 1924, after whom the company was named. It was originally created as a low budget release agent,[3] and like the other so-called Poverty Row studios, was based in a small plot off Sunset Strip, by Gower Street.[4] An early Poverty Row studio,[5] it was a forerunner of Monogram Pictures, whom was also founded by W. Ray Johnston.[6]
In 1929, Rayart produced a series of musical pieces—featuring — as well as shorts and the feature-length film , a musical set in college with "an entirely predictable" script.[7]
Rayart was renamed Raytone with the advent of sound in films.[citation needed] The company became part of Monogram Pictures in a merger with Sono Art-World Wide Pictures in 1933.
Filmography[]
- Midnight Secrets (1924)
- The Street of Tears (1924)
- For Another Woman (1924)
- The Pell Street Mystery (1924)
- Trail Dust (1924)
- Lightning Romance (1924)
- Geared to Go (1924)
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- Ace of Clubs (1925)
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- The Pride of the Force (1925)
- Cyclone Cavalier (1925)
- The Fear Fighter (1925)
- Bashful Buccaneer (1925)
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- The Road Agent (1925)
- Goat Getter (1925)
- The Knockout Kid (1925)
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- Border Vengeance (1925)
- Mistaken Orders (1925)
- Fighting Fate (1925)
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- Super Speed (1925)
- Winning a Woman (1925)
- Crack o' Dawn (1925)
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- Once in a Lifetime (1925)
- The Snob Buster (1925)
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- Youth's Gamble (1925)
- Getting 'Em Right (1925)
- Easy Money (1925)
- (1926)
- The Dixie Flyer (1926)
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- Broadway Billy (1926)
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- Danger Quest (1926)
- The Patent Leather Pug (1926)
- West of Rainbow's End (1926)
- The Heart of a Coward (1926)
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- The Call of the Klondike (1926)
- The Dangerous Dude (1926)
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- Thrilling Youth (1926)
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- Racing Romance (1926)
- Crossed Signals (1926)
- The Baited Trap (1926)
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- Rapid Fire Romance (1926)
- Oh Billy, Behave (1926)
- The Winner (1926)
- Speed Crazed (1926)
- The Smoke Eaters (1926)
- A Captain's Courage (1926)
- Tentacles of the North (1926)
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- Speed Cop (1926)
- Wolves of the Desert (1926)
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- The Grey Devil (1926)
- The Gallant Fool (1926)
- West of the Law (1926)
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- Speeding Hoofs (1927)
- The Show Girl (1927)
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- The Midnight Watch (1927)
- Riders of the West (1927)
- The Lost Limited (1927)
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- Western Courage (1927)
- Thunderbolt's Tracks (1927)
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- Speedy Smith (1927)
- The Racing Fool (1927)
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- Smiling Billy (1927)
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- The Silent Hero (1927)
- The Cruise of the Hellion (1927)
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- Gun-Hand Garrison (1927)
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- Heroes in Blue (1927)
- On the Stroke of Twelve (1927)
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- Daring Deeds (1927)
- Modern Daughters (1927)
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- The Wheel of Destiny (1927)
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- Gypsy of the North (1928)
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- The Law and the Man (1928)
- The Phantom of the Turf (1928)
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- The Painted Trail (1928)
- Danger Patrol (1928)
- Mystery Valley (1928)
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- The City of Purple Dreams (1928)
- The Branded Man (1928)
- Trail Riders (1928)
- Lightnin' Shot (1928)
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- Ships of the Night (1928)
- The Black Pearl (1928)
- The Man from Headquarters (1928)
- The Divine Sinner (1928)
- The Midnight Adventure (1928)
- Sisters of Eve (1928)
- Isle of Lost Men (1928)
- Should a Girl Marry? (1928)
- The Heart of Broadway (1928)
- Some Mother's Boy (1929)
- Handcuffed (1929)
- Bride of the Desert (1929)
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- The Devil's Chaplain (1929)
- Anne Against the World (1929)
- Overland Bound (1929)
- When Dreams Come True (1929)
- Shanghai Rose (1929)
- Two Sisters (1929), a production with sound
- (1930), a production with sound
References[]
- ^ Michael Allen (25 September 2014). Contemporary US Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-317-87418-8.
- ^ Wide Angle. Ohio University School of Film. 1991.
- ^ Michael R. Pitts (25 July 2005). Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8.
- ^ Michael G. Ankerich (1 May 1993). Broken silence: conversations with 23 silent film stars. McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-89950-835-1.
- ^ Wes D. Gehring (2003). Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado. Indiana Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87195-167-0.
- ^ E.J. Stephens and Marc Wanamaker (2014). Early Poverty Row Studios. Arcadia Publishing. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4671-3258-9.
- ^ Richard Koszarski (27 August 2008). Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-8135-4552-3.
- Film production companies of the United States
- American companies established in 1924
- Mass media companies established in 1924