Oscar Price and the founders of United Artists Corporation
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Title
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Oscar Price and the founders of United Artists Corporation
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Date
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1919
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Description
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Photo of the four founders after they signed the agreement to create United Artists. Oscar price facing the camera.
From left to right - Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, David Wark Griffith
In b/w
200x250 mm
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Scholarly Significance
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This is a photo of celebrities but in a private manner. Their backs are turned which indicates hiding something, in this instance it is the business details of creating United Artists.
Backs facing the camera shows the unawareness of the photo or the meaningfulness to have their faces within the photo.
Although outside the 1920-1929 dates it is important to understand this context of the friendship these stars had and the power they had for the next decade.
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Rights
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Charlie Chaplin Archive
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Identifier
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ECCI00027045, X007
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Cataloguer
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Alex Bartholomew
