This article is about the motion picture production company. For the contemporary art gallery, see Metro Pictures Gallery.
"Metro Studios" redirects here. For the Atlanta production studio, see Atlanta Metro Studios.
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Metro Pictures Corporation
Industry
Film studio
Predecessor
Solax Studios
Founded
June 23, 1915; 108 years ago (1915-06-23)
Founder
Richard A. Rowland George Grombacker Louis B. Mayer
Defunct
April 17, 1924; 100 years ago (1924-04-17)
Fate
Merged with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Successors
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library: Warner Bros. (through Turner Entertainment Co.) Public domain
Headquarters
Heidelberg Building,
New York City, New York
,
United States
Key people
Richard A. Rowland (President) Louis B. Mayer (secretary)
Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey.[1] It was purchased in 1919.
^"Studios and Films". Fort Lee Films.org. Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on April 25, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
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