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Metro Pictures

film production company in the silent film era
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Metro Pictures

Summary

Metro Pictures is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (218 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Metro Pictures is in the country of United States[3].
  • Metro Pictures's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Metro Pictures's instance of is recorded as film production company[5].
  • Metro Pictures's founder is recorded as Louis B. Mayer[6].
  • Metro Pictures's logo image is recorded as Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual (1916) (1916) (14576783310).jpg[7].
  • Metro Pictures's followed by is recorded as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[8].
  • Metro Pictures's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles[9].
  • Metro Pictures's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 137272350[10].
  • Metro Pictures's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n85151665[11].
  • Metro Pictures's IMDb ID is recorded as co0042390[12].
  • Metro Pictures's Commons category is recorded as Metro Pictures[13].
  • Metro Pictures's industry is recorded as film production[14].
  • +1915-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Metro Pictures[15].
  • Metro Pictures was dissolved in +1924-04-17T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Metro Pictures's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0635nx[17].
  • Metro Pictures's location of formation is recorded as Jacksonville[18].
  • Metro Pictures's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007335164005171[19].
  • Metro Pictures's TMDB company ID is recorded as 16101[20].
  • Metro Pictures's EIDR party ID is recorded as 10.5237/BC49-8B75[21].
  • Metro Pictures's Letterboxd studio ID is recorded as metro-pictures-corporation[22].
  • Metro Pictures's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/8c069783-1b77-42d1-88ff-43c4e9296b18[23].

Body

Founding

Metro Pictures's founder is recorded as Louis B. Mayer[6]. +1915-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[15]. Its location of formation is recorded as Jacksonville[18].

Identity

Metro Pictures's followed by is recorded as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[8].

Operations

Metro Pictures's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles[9].

Industry

Metro Pictures's industry is recorded as film production[14].

Dissolution

Metro Pictures was dissolved in +1924-04-17T00:00:00Z[16].

Why It Matters

Metro Pictures ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (218 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

business Los Angeles Louis B. Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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