Document Type
Honors
Department
Film Studies Program
Rights Management
Rhode Island College
Abstract
Eastern Film Corporation was a local studio but its films were distributed and screened throughout New England with the exception of Rhode Island. At least twelve of its films, of various genres, which seemed to have generous budgets for size of the studio, have survived. Eastern’s prime years of business were brief, 1915-1917. Unfortunately, a fire destroyed the building in 1917 and the expenses it would cost to repair it too high for its original founder, Frederick S. Peck, a wealthy Barrington politician. Nevertheless, the studio staggered on throughout the 1920s.
Recommended Citation
Tawfik, Adam, "The Elusive Eastern Film Corporation of Providence, Rhode Island: Resurrecting a Footnote in Film History" (2013). Honors Projects Overview. 76.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/76
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
