Reliance-Majestic Studios

Reliance-Majestic Studios

Company type	Private
Industry	Film production
Founded	January 1, 1914 (1914-01-01) in Hollywood, California, United States
Fate	Renamed Fine Arts Studios; later became part of Triangle Film Corporation; studio lot sold to Tiffany Pictures in 1927
Headquarters	Hollywood, California , United States
Products	Motion pictures

Reliance-Majestic Studios was one of the pioneering American movie studios located in Hollywood, California, founded around 1914 at 4516 Sunset Boulevard.

This facility quickly became the headquarters for filmmaker D. W. Griffith and the Mutual Film Corporation. Later, it was renamed Fine Arts Studios and also referred to as the Griffith Studio or Griffith Artcraft Studio. Mutual created the studio through a collaboration between Griffith and Harry Aitken, owner of Majestic Studio.

Significant films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Hearts of the World (1918), and Broken Blossoms (1919) were produced at this location. The extensive sets for Intolerance (1916) were built nearby, on the future grounds of the Vista Theatre.

In 1915, a merger combined Thomas Ince's Kay-Bee Pictures, Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, and Griffith's Reliance-Majestic to establish the Triangle Film Corporation, which was managed by Harry and Roy Aitken.

By 1927, ownership of the studio lot transferred to Tiffany Pictures. Following Tiffany’s bankruptcy in 1932, the site was renamed Talisman Studios and functioned as a rental space utilized by companies including Monogram Pictures.

Today, the address 4520 Sunset Boulevard is occupied by a Vons supermarket.

Fine Arts Film Company

• The Penitentes (1915)
• Old Heidelberg (1915)
• Jordan Is a Hard Road (1915)
• Double Trouble (1915)
• Fifty-Fifty (1916)
• Flirting with Fate (1916)
• Manhattan Madness (1916)
• Reggie Mixes In (1916)
• Stranded (1916)
• The Habit of Happiness (1916)
• Sunshine Dad (1916)
• The Missing Links (1916)
• The Devil's Needle (1916)
• A Sister of Six (1916)
• The Wood Nymph (1916)
• The Children of the Feud (1916)
• Betty of Greystone (1916)
• The Americano (1916)
• Diane of the Follies (1916)
• Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
• The Good Bad-Man (1916)
• The Old Folks at Home (1916)
• The Children Pay (1916)
• His Picture in the Papers (1916)
• American Aristocracy (1916)
• Pathways of Life (1916)
• The Little School Ma'am (1916)
• The House Built Upon Sand (1916)
• Her Official Fathers (1917)
• Hell-to-Pay Austin (1917)
• Jim Bludso (1917)
• Cheerful Givers (1917)
• A Daughter of the Poor (1917)
• Hands Up! (1917)
• Souls Triumphant (1917)
• The Bad Boy (1917)
• The Little Yank (1917)

See also

• Majestic Film Company