Rayart Pictures

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Rayart Pictures
Company typeFilm production
IndustryEntertainment
Founded1924
FounderW. Ray Johnston
Defunct1933
Fatemerged with Sono Art-World Wide Pictures and acquired by Monogram Pictures

Rayart Pictures was one of the early film production and distribution companies operating independent of the major

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] specializing in westerns.[2] It was started 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, which was also founded by W. Ray Johnston.[6]

In 1929, Rayart produced a series of musical pieces—featuring Tommy Christian and His Palisades Orchestra— as well as shorts and the feature-length film Howdy Broadway, 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

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The Fighting Thorobreds lobby card

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-317-87418-8
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  2. ^ Wide Angle. Ohio University School of Film. 1991.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8
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  4. ISBN 978-0-89950-835-1
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  5. ISBN 978-0-87195-167-0
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  6. ISBN 978-1-4671-3258-9
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  7. ISBN 978-0-8135-4552-3
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