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Comique Film Corporation
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Type of Company
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Production company
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Country of Origination
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United States of America
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Years of Operation
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Formed 1916
Active 1 January 1917 through circa 1920?
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Company Principals
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Joseph M. Schenck
Lou Anger, production manager (circa 1922), studio manager and general manager
M.S. Epstein, business manager (circa 1922)
Edward F. Cline, casting director (circa 1922)
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Company Offices
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New York, New York, USA
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Company Studios
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[?] Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA? (1917-1918)
Acquired the former Balboa studio (Horkheimer studio) in Long Beach, California, USA (in April 1918)
1723 Allesandro Street (Glendale Boulevard) in Edendale (Los Angeles), California, USA (in February 1919)
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Comique Film Corporation was formed to produce Roscoe Arbuckle comedies for distribution through Paramount Pictures Corporation. The company later produced short films featuring Buster Keaton.
References: FilmYearBook-1923 p. 384; Miller-Comedies pp. 14, 15.
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