Saturday, June 6, 2009

197:Movie 5

||| X ||| Pictures was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1932 by Joseph Schenck, the former president of United Artists, Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Brothers, William Goetz from ||| Y ||| Films, and Raymond Griffith. Financial backing came from Schenck's older brother Nicholas Schenck and the father-in-law of Goetz, Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM Studios. Company product was distributed by United Artists(UA), and was filmed at various studios.Schenck was President of ||| X ||| while Zanuck was named Vice President in Charge of Production and Goetz served as vice-president. Successful from the very beginning, their 1934 production, The House of Rothschild was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1935, they produced the classic film Les Miserables, from Victor Hugo's novel, which was also nominated for Best Picture. Legend has it that the new independent took a detour straight into the major studio camp when Zanuck became outraged by United Artists' refusal to reward ||| X ||| with UA stock. Schenck, who had been a UA stockholder for over ten years, resigned from United Artists in protest of the shoddy treatment of ||| X |||, and Zanuck began discussions with other distributors which led to talks with the floundering giant.

ANSWER:

X:
Twentieth Century Pictures
Y:Fox Film Corporation.

Eldrich , Saurabh A, Chithananda, Sunil , Vinay RM and Aetos have cracked the answer.

6 comments:

Chithananda said...

X _Twentieth Century
Y _ Fox films

Saurabh Aggarwal said...

X - 20th Century Pictures
Y - Fox Films

AeTos said...

20th Century Fox?

vinay r m said...

20th century fox

Eldrich said...

20th century fox

sunil said...

x>20th century pictures
y>fox pictures