It was back in 1915 when William Fox stated up the Fox Film Corporation. In 1933, a group which included Joseph Schenck, William Goetz, Daryl F. Zanuck as well as Raymond Griffith would start up the Twentieth Century Films Corporation and by 1935 the two companies would merge together to become the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a company who’s DVDs you will have rented if you’ve ever used Netflixs rental.

It all started when William Fox founded the Fox Film Company. Throughout his reign he was able to become very profitable due to his excellent casting options. In 1926 he even bought the rights to a German sound processing technique to use in his films. He was growing too fast so the decision to purchase 300 acres of Beverly Hills land led to the creation of Movietown and the Fox Films Studio.

Loew’s Inc was located right next door to Movietown and housed more the 200 film studios. One of these was that of the MM Studios so when Marcus Loew passed on, he made a move to take control of it and officially merged with Loew’s Inc. in 1929. Of course Louis B. Mayer of MGM was not at all pleased with this arrangement and reported Fox to the Justice Department’s Anti-trust division.

After the whole anti-trust case and a bit of jail time, William Fox was hit by a car leaving him unable to attend to his company for some time. When he was finally able to get back to his feet and return to work, the stock market had crashed. Both he and his company were flat broke and Fox was looking for a miracle that would save him from bankruptcy. Twentieth Century Films was that miracle and they two corporations would merge into one.

Twentieth Century had the money and Fox had the studios and the merging of the two together was nothing less then perfect. Twentieth Century Fox was now headed by Schneck as the chief officer and Zanuck as the head of production. It was during this important time in the company that Schneck made the right decision to bring large names and very famous talents into the company like Betty Grable and even Henry Fonda. We owe the success of today’s hd dvd rental markets, and the pleasure we derive from them, to pioneering people like these..

When WWII started, Zanuck joined with the military and went off to fight in it. This left Goetz in charge of the production for which he did an excellent job. After the war had ended though, the television became the new craze and everyone would sit at home watching it rather then heading to the theaters. By using a special French projector and a concave viewing screen, Fox Films was able to introduce Cinemascope which allows one to see 3D films without polarized glasses.