Searching for Info on Silent Film Company

[Lisa Bradberry]

I received an e-mail from someone asking about a silent film company called "Pyramid Pictures, Inc." I haven't heard of it and wondered if anyone here knew anything about its history. The person has a Syndicate Profit Sharing Agreement dated August 1921 and wants to learn more about the company.

Lisa

[Steve Massa]

Hi Lisa
Don't know if this is the same company, but the only Pyramid that I'm familiar with produced comedies with a forgotten Chaplin imitator named Ray Hughes in 1917 -1918. Titles included IN AND OUT, LOVE AND LUNCH (at LOC), and BEACH BIRDS. MoMA also has something with him titled THE CAMOUFLAGE BALL. He did a decent Chaplin, but was too long and lanky to be convincing. Pyramids' tagline was "Make A Sphinx Laugh."

Steve

[Chris Snowden]

I received an e-mail from someone asking about a silent film company called "Pyramid Pictures, Inc." I haven't heard of it and wondered if anyone here knew anything about its history. The person has a Syndicate Profit Sharing Agreement dated August 1921 and wants to learn more about the company.

Lisa

There was a Pyramid Photo Plays, founded in 1915 and I believe based in Los Angeles, and then there was a Pyramid Pictures, which was based in New Jersey. That company was active in the early 1920s; its last credited feature-length production was Wife in Name Only (1923), starring former Sennett girl Mary Thurman and distributed by Selznick, but the company made non-theatrical films too. I don't know when they went under, or if the company was acquired by another one.

[Lisa Bradberry]

Thank you, Steve and Chris.

Lisa

[Frank Flood]

There was also a Pyramid Studio, on Mill Road in Astoria, Long Island, where the ever-popular Al Joy filmed at least some of his comedies in 1926.

Frank