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{{about|the person Andrés Bonifacio|other uses|Bonifacio (disambiguation)}}

'''Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation''' (known from 1935 to 1985 as '''Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation''') is one of the six [[major film studio|major]] [[United States|American]] [[film studio]]s. Located in the [[Century City, Los Angeles, California|Century City]] area of [[Los Angeles, California]], [[United States|USA]], just west of [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], the studio is a [[subsidiary]] of [[News Corporation]], the media conglomerate controlled by [[Rupert Murdoch]].

'''Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro''' ([[November 30]], [[1863]] &ndash; [[May 10]], [[1897]]) was one of the chief leaders of the [[Philippine Revolution|revolution]] of the [[Philippines]] against [[Spanish Empire|Spanish colonial rule]]. The 1896 [[Philippine Revolution]] was the first revolution in Asia against [[Europe]]an [[colonialism|colonial rule]].

==HistoryEarly life==

[[Image:Foxplazafromolympicblvd.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Fox Plaza]], [[Century City, California|Century City]] headquarters.]]

The company is the result of a 1935 merger of two entities, [[Fox Film Corporation]] founded by [[Wilhelm Fried|William Fox]] in [[1915]], and [[Twentieth Century Pictures]], begun in [[1933 in film|1933]] by [[Darryl F. Zanuck]], [[Joseph Schenck]], [[Raymond Griffith]] and [[William Goetz]]. William Fox, a pioneer in creating the theater "chain", began producing films in 1914. In 1917 he introduced [[Theda Bara]], one of the most popular screen actresses of the time. Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Fox concentrated on acquiring and building theaters; pictures were secondary. With the introduction of sound Fox acquired the rights to a German sound-on-film process which he dubbed "Movietone" and in 1926 began offering films with a music-and- effects track. The following year he began the weekly "Fox Movietone News" feature, which ran until 1963. The growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired three-hundred acres in the open country west of Beverly Hills and built "Movietone City", the best-equipped studio of its time.

He was born to a Tagalog father and a Spanish [[mestiza]] mother, Catalina de Castro of [[Zambales]]<ref>http://www.visitzambales.com/newlayout/index.php?action=people&part=intfacts</ref>, in [[Tondo]], Manila. His father was a ''cabeza de barangay'' (a leading [[barangay]] official). He was orphaned at a young age. According to popular anecdote, he peddled canes and fans to support his family.

When rival [[Marcus Loew]] died in 1927, Fox offered to buy the Loew family's holdings; Loew's Inc. controlled more than two-hundred theaters as well as the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] studio (whose films are currently distributed internationally by Fox -- see below). When the family agreed to the sale, the merger of Fox and Loew's Inc. was announced in 1929. But MGM studio-boss [[Louis B. Mayer]], not included in the deal, fought back; using political connections, he called on the Justice Department's anti-trust unit to block the merger. Fate favoured Mayer; Fox was badly injured in a car crash and by the time he recovered the 1929 stock market crash had taken most of his fortune, putting an end to the Loew's merger.

Later, he worked as a clerk in a British firm in Manila. He married twice - his first wife was a woman named Monica, who died of leprosy. He read books about the French Revolution, ''[[Les Miserables]]'', and the novels of local reformist and future national hero [[Jose Rizal]], among others.

Over-extended and close to bankruptcy, Fox was stripped of his empire and even ended up in jail. Fox Film, with more than five-hundred theatres, was placed in receivership; a bank-mandated reorganisation propped the company up for a time, but it was clear a merger was the only way Fox Film could survive.

According to historians, Bonifacio - though projected by detractors as being unlettered - was in fact very literate because a British firm would not have hired him as a clerk if he was not. He was also highly intellectual to be keeping serious novels and political books, many were not even written in his native tongue. He also authored countless articles and poems in the course of organizing the revolution.

===Twentieth Century Pictures foundation===

Twentieth Century 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 Fox 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, and was filmed at various studios.

He was a [[Freemason]]. He also joined Rizal's ''[[La Liga Filipina]]'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] "The Philippine League"), a society that called for reforms in Spanish rule. However, the ''Liga'' was disbanded shortly after Rizal was arrested and deported to the town of [[Dapitan]] in [[Mindanao]] a day after the group's only meeting.

Zanuck was named president 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 Misérables (1935 film)|Les Miserables]]'', from [[Victor Hugo]]'s novel, which was also nominated for Best Picture. That same year, they merged with the financially strapped Fox Film Corporation to create 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. which eventually dropped the hyphen in 1985, around the same time the studio was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

==The Katipunan==

===Twentieth Century/Fox merger===

The ''Republika ng Katagalugan'' (Tagalog Republic), with him as President and the members of the ''Katipunan'' high council as his cabinet. "Tagalog", in this sense, was a term used to refer to the Philippines as a whole, not [[Tagalog people|the ethnic group]].

Two years later, Joe Schenck and Fox management agreed to a merger. Although Twentieth Century was the senior partner in the merger, it was still a dwarf compared to Fox. With this in mind, observers of this mouse-and-elephant combination expected that the new company would be called "Fox-Twentieth Century." However, the new company was called '''Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation''', which began trading on May 31, [[1935 in film|1935]]. (The hyphen was dropped in [[1985]].) Schenck and Zanuck retained their roles as chief executive and head of production, respectively.

On the night of [[July 7]], [[1892]] (the eve of Rizal's arrest, in fact), Bonifacio founded the [[Katipunan]], a revolutionary secret society which would later spark the [[Philippine Revolution]] of [[1896]] against Spanish rule. In this period, he met his second wife, [[Gregoria de Jesus]], who became a rebel leader in her own right. His right-hand man was [[Emilio Jacinto]]. Within the society, Bonifacio's codename or ''nom de guerre'' was ''Maypagasa'' (There is hope).

Aside from the theater chain and a first-rate studio lot, Zanuck and Schenck felt there wasn't much else to Fox. The studio's biggest star, [[Will Rogers]], died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, [[Janet Gaynor]], was fading in popularity. Promising leading men [[James Dunn (actor)|James Dunn]] and [[Spencer Tracy]] had been dropped because of heavy drinking. Zanuck quickly signed young actors who would carry Twentieth Century-Fox for years: [[Tyrone Power]], [[Don Ameche]], [[Henry Fonda]], ice-skater [[Sonja Henie]], and [[Betty Grable]]. And also on the Fox payroll he found two players whom he would build into the studio's leading assets, [[Alice Faye]] and seven-year-old [[Shirley Temple]].

With the establishment of the Katipunan, Andrés Bonifacio became popularly known as the ''Father of the Revolution'' and eventually held the title of ''Supremo''.

Favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox passed RKO and mighty MGM to become the third-most profitable studio. While Zanuck went off for eighteen months' war service, junior partner [[William Goetz]] kept profits high by emphasizing light entertainment; the studio's&mdash;indeed the industry's&mdash;biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable. But when Zanuck returned in 1943 he intended to make Fox's output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like ''[[Wilson]]'', ''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]'', ''[[The Snake Pit]]'', ''[[Boomerang]]'' and ''[[Pinky]]'', Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books and Broadway musicals, including the [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] films, beginning with the musical version of ''[[State Fair]]'' in 1945, and continuing on years later with ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' in 1956, ''[[The King and I (1956 film)|The King and I]]'', and ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''. They also distributed, but did not make, the [[Cinemascope]] version of ''[[Oklahoma! (1955)|Oklahoma!]]'' and the 1958 film version of ''[[South Pacific (1958 film)|South Pacific]]''.

He wrote the patriotic poem, ''Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa'' (loosely, Love for the Motherland), which saw print in the first and only issue of the ''Katipunan'' periodical, ''Kalayaan'' (Freedom), edited by Jacinto. Allegedly, he also made the first translation of Jose Rizal's final poem, ''[[Mi Ultimo Adios]]'' (My Last Farewell) into [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]].

After the war, audiences drifted away, and the arrival of television hastened the process. Fox held on to its theaters until a court-mandated divorce; they were spun off as Fox National Theaters in 1953. That year, with attendance at one-half 1946's level, Fox gambled on an unproven gimmick. Noting that the two movie sensations of 1952 had been [[Cinerama]], which required three projectors to fill a giant curved screen, and "Natural Vision" 3-D, which got its effects of depth by requiring the use of polarized glasses, Fox mortgaged its studio to buy rights to a French anamorphic projection system which gave a slight illusion of depth without glasses. In February, 1953, Zanuck announced that henceforth all Fox pictures would be made in [[CinemaScope]]. To convince theater owners to install this new process, Fox agreed to help pay conversion costs (about $25,000 per screen); and to ensure enough product, Fox gave access to CinemaScope to any rival studio choosing to use it. Seeing the box-office for the first two CinemaScope features, ''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]'' and ''[[How to Marry a Millionaire]]'', Warners, MGM, Universal and Columbia quickly adopted the process.

Just before the Revolution broke out, he formed a revolutionary government called "Republika ng mga Katagalugan" with himself as the president.

CinemaScope brought a brief up-turn in attendance, but by 1956 the numbers again began to slide. That year Darryl Zanuck announced his resignation as head of production. Officially attributed to burn-out, rumors persisted that his wife had threatened divorce (in community-property California) after discovering Zanuck's affair with actress [[Bella Darvi]]. Zanuck moved to Paris, setting up as an independent producer; he did not set foot in California again for fifteen years.

==Downfall==

===Production and financial problems===

His successor, producer [[Buddy Adler]], died a year later. President [[Spyros Skouras]] (who had succeeded Schenck in [[1942]]) brought in a series of production executives, but none had Zanuck's success. By the early 1960s Fox was in trouble. A remake of Theda Bara's ''[[Cleopatra (1917 film)|Cleopatra]]'' had begun in 1959 with [[Joan Collins]] in the lead; as a publicity gimmick producer [[Walter Wanger]] offered one million dollars to [[Elizabeth Taylor]] if she would star; Taylor accepted, and costs for ''Cleopatra'' began to escalate.

While Bonifacio's personal campaigns were less than successful, the revolutionaries in Cavite had greater success, led by officers coming from the upper classes, including the celebrated [[Emilio Aguinaldo]]. Thus, they sent out a manifesto calling for a revolutionary government of their own, disregarding Bonifacio's leadership.

Meanwhile, another remake—this one of the [[1940]] [[Cary Grant]] hit ''[[My Favorite Wife]]'' was rushed into production in an attempt to turn over a quick profit to help keep Fox afloat. The unoriginal [[romantic comedy]], titled ''[[Something's Got to Give]]'' paired Fox's most bankable star of the [[1950]]'s - [[Marilyn Monroe]] - with [[Dean Martin]], but with a troubled star and belligerent director ([[George Cukor]]) causing delays on a daily basis, it quickly descended into a costly debacle. As ''Cleopatra'''s budget passed the ten-million dollar mark, Fox sold its back lot (now the site of [[Century City]]) to Alcoa in 1961 to raise cash. After several months of very little progress, [[Marilyn Monroe]] was fired from ''[[Something's Got to Give]]'', although somewhat controversially [[Elizabeth Taylor]]'s highly disruptive reign on the ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' set continued unchallenged.

A council comprising of Bonifacio's men and the ''[[Magdalo]]'' and the ''Magdiwang'', two locally-based rival Katipunan factions, held a convention in Tejeros, Cavite to establish a unified front and settle the issue of leadership of the revolutionary movement. The Magdalo faction was led by Baldomero Aguinaldo, cousin to Emilio Aguinaldo. In the elections, the Cavitenos voted their own Emilio Aguinaldo President. Bonifacio, due to the lack of a power base in the province, was voted Director of the Interior.

With few pictures on the schedule, Skouras wanted to rush Zanuck's big-budget war epic ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'' into release as another source of quick cash. This offended Zanuck, still Fox's largest shareholder. After it became clear that ''[[Something's Got to Give]]'' would not be able to progress without Monroe in the lead (Martin had refused to work with anyone else), Skouras finally relented and re-signed her. But days before filming was due to resume, she was found dead at her [[Los Angeles]] home and the unfinished scenes from ''[[Something's Got to Give]]'' were shelved. They wouldn't see the light of day for nearly 40 years.

However, a member of the ''Magdalo'' faction, Daniel Tirona, questioned Bonifacio's qualifications for high office, declaring him uneducated and unfit for the position. Bonifacio was slighted, all the more so since he had previously asked that the results of the election be respected by all. Invoking his authority as ''Supremo'', he threatened those in attendance with a pistol and declared the results of the Tejeros Convention as null and void and left in a rage. Later, he wrote to Jacinto about his misgivings about the whole matter, as he suspected Tirona of spreading black propaganda against him and fixing the ballots (as some other leaders also suspected).

At the next board meeting Zanuck spoke for eight hours, convincing directors that Skouras was mis-managing the company and that he was the only possible successor. He was installed as chairman; then named his son [[Richard Zanuck]] as president. This new management group seized ''Cleopatra'' and rushed it to completion, shut down the studio, laid off the entire staff to save money, axed the long-running Movietone Newsreel and made a series of cheap, popular pictures that luckily restored Fox as a major studio. The biggest boost to the studio's fortunes came from the tremendous success of ''The Sound of Music'' (1965), a handsomely produced adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became one of the all-time greatest box office hits.

It is believed the Supremo from this point headed towards Batangas to lead another Katipunan faction where he would establish his own government. Word of this got back to the Magdalo group. In fear of a separate rival government along with an ongoing revolution, Aguinaldo ordered the arrest of Bonifacio and his brothers. The Magdalo soldiers caught up with Bonifacio in the town of Indang. They surrounded the house and asked Bonifacio and his men to disarm and come out peacefully. Bonifacio refuted and stated that bullets would settle this matter. The stand off lasted through the night.

At dawn, the soldiers closed in and opened fire. Bonifacio ordered his men not to shoot. His men yelled, "Brothers, don't shoot! Tell us what you want?" The soldiers made their way in. [[Procopio Bonifacio]] was tied up and beaten with a revolver. [[Ciriaco Bonifacio]] was held down by two soldiers and shot to death. Bonifacio was stabbed and beaten with a rifle butt. [[Gregoria de Jesus]](wife of Andres Bonifacio) recounted that after the capture of the Supremo, the leading officer approached her, asking where they had stashed the Treasury money.

Zanuck stayed on as chairman until 1971 but his last years saw several expensive flops, resulting in Fox posting losses from 1969 to 1971. Following his removal, and after an uncertain period, new management brought Fox back to health. Under president [[Dennis Stanfill]] and production head [[Alan Ladd, Jr.]], Fox films connected with modern audiences. Stanfill used the profits to acquire resort properties, soft-drink bottlers, Australian theaters, and other properties in an attempt to diversify enough to offset the boom-or-bust cycle of picture-making.

The brothers were taken to Naic and tried in a kangaroo court headed by General [[Mariano Noriel]]. Both were charged with treason and sedition, punishment was death by firing squad. In Emilio Aguinaldo's biography, Aguinaldo claims he superseded this judgment and ordered the Supremo to be exiled and banished to Mt. Nagpatong. Major [[Lazaro Makapagal]], along with four soldiers, was given orders to lead the Bonifacio brothers to Mt. Nagpatong. Makapagal was also given a sealed envelope with strict orders not to open it until they reached the mountains. On [[May 10]], [[1897]], at Mt. Nagpatong, Major [[Lazaro Makapagal]] opened the letter, faced the Supremo and his brother, and read its contents aloud. Andres and Procopio were to be executed by firing squad or he himself would be shot. It was signed by General [[Mariano Noriel]]. Makapagal turned his back and his soldiers opened fire on the Bonifacio brothers. The Supremo was only 34 years old. Fearing their gunfire being heard by Spanish forces, they quickly dug a shallow grave and covered the two bodies with twigs and branches. Co-patriots of the Revolution regarded this an ugly blot laid at Aguinaldo's door, though Aguinaldo originally wanted them banished instead.

===Rupert Murdoch===

{{main|Rupert Murdoch}}

With financial stability came new owners, and in 1978 control passed to the investors [[Marc Rich]] and [[Marvin Davis]]. Three years later, Rich sold his shares to [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s Australian media group, [[News Corporation]]. In 1984, Davis sold his half of Fox to News Corp., giving Murdoch's company complete control. To run the studio, Murdoch hired [[Barry Diller]] from [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]; Diller brought with him a plan which Paramount's board had refused: a studio-backed, fourth free to air commercial television-network.

In 1918, an expedition lead by one of the former soldiers found the grave of Andres Bonifacio. His remains were exhumed and placed in a urn at the Legislative Building (today National Museum) in Manila. In 1945, near the end of WWII during the [[Battle of Manila]], the building was completely destroyed. The Supremo's remains are lost forever.

But to gain FCC approval of Fox's purchase of [[Metromedia]]'s television holdings (once the stations of the old [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] network), Murdoch had to become an American citizen. He did so in [[1985]], and in [[1986]], the new [[Fox Broadcasting Company]] took to the air. Over the next twenty years the network and owned-stations group have expanded to become extremely profitable for News Corp. The film studio has prospered too, although Fox has backed away from its reputation for literary adaptations and adult themes to concentrate on "popcorn" movies such as the ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogies (1977-1983 and 1999-2005), and others.

==Controversy==

Since January 2001, this company has been the international distributor for MGM/UA releases, and as of 2006, the worldwide video distributor for the MGM/UA library. In the 1980s, Fox -- through a joint venture with [[CBS]], called [[CBS/Fox Video]], had distributed certain UA films on video, thus UA has come full circle by switching to Fox for video distribution.

Some historians, like [[Renato Constantino]], see him as a champion of the masses who was slighted by ambitious members of the upper class. Others like [[Gregorio Zaide]], favor Aguinaldo and company over him. [[Glenn May]] goes as far as saying that his role as a national hero was largely invented. Also, there is debate whether he should be considered the first Philippine President instead of Aguinaldo and the national hero instead of Rizal until now.

Some analytical historians, claim that what happened at Tejeros, Cavite was actually a coup de etat to wrest power from Bonifacio by the bourgeois or upper class represented by Aguinaldo. (Aguinaldo and members of his class enjoyed more privilege status even before the revolution. They would not allow a victorious president Bonifacio ordering land and wealth distribution as his first decree.) Hence, the Tejeros Convention was a farce intended to lure Bonifacio to the Caviteño territory. The presidential election wasn't a national election at all. Participated only by mostly Caviteños. The other revolting provinces such as Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Laguna, Batangas, and others, were not participants. Bonifacio, who was too fueled with idealism, was too naive to understand maneuvering politicians. Bonifacio was not allowed to get out of Cavite. He was tried then executed promptly for treason. Many now asks: Had Bonifacio able to slip to Manila could he have declared that the Aguinaldo was the one who betrayed the revolution?

==Fox Film==

==Today==

The '''Fox Film Corporation''' was an [[United States|American]] company which produced [[film|motion pictures]], formed in [[1915 in film|1915]] when founder [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] merged two [[corporation|companies]] he had established in [[1913 in film|1913]]: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the [[independent film|Independents]]; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company. (see [[vertical integration]])

[[Image:Bonifacio_Monument.JPG|left|thumb|100px|Bonifacio Monument in [[Caloocan City]], sculpted by [[Guillermo Tolentino]]]]

[[Image:Php_bill_10_front.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Andrés Bonifacio (right) on the 10-peso bill]]

Bonifacio's birthday on [[November 30]] is celebrated as '''Bonifacio Day''' (Filipino: ''Araw ni Bonifacio'') and is a public holiday in the Philippines.

There are many monuments to Bonifacio across the nation, with the most famous being two sculptures, one by [[Napoleon Abueva]] and the other by [[Guillermo Tolentino]], both [[National Artist of the Philippines|National Artists]].

The company's first film studios were set up in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]] but in 1917, William Fox sent [[Sol M. Wurtzel]] to [[Hollywood, California]] to oversee the studio's new [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] production facilities where a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking. On [[July 23]], [[1926 in film|1926]], the company bought the [[patent]]s of the [[Movietone sound system]] from [[Theodore Case]] for recording sound on to [[film]].

In current [[Philippine peso|Philippine currency]], he is depicted in the 10-peso bill (currently out of production) and 10-peso coin, along with fellow patriot [[Apolinario Mabini]].

After the [[Wall Street Crash 1929|Crash of 1929]], William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners merged the company with [[Twentieth Century Pictures]] to form 20th Century Fox in 1935.

==In film==

Bonifacio was portrayed by Julio Diaz in ''Bayani'' (Hero), a feature film loosely based on his life directed by experimental ''auteur'' Raymond Red, and an educational television series also named ''Bayani''.

In ''[[José Rizal (film)|Jose Rizal]]'', a film about the national hero, he was portrayed by [[Gardo Verzosa]].

Among Fox's notable films:

===1920s= References ==

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* ''Lights of New York'' (1922, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

* Ocampo, Ambeth. Bones of Contention: The Bonifacio Lectures

* ''[[Madness of Youth]]'' (1923, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

* Agoncillo, Teodoro. The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan

* ''[[Fig Leaves]]'' (1926, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

* Constantino, Renato. The Philippines: a Past Revisited

* ''[[Yankee Senor]]'' (1926, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

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* ''[[Hell's Four Hundred]]'' (1926, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

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* ''[[Joy Girl]]'' (1927, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

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* ''[[Seventh Heaven (film)|Seventh Heaven]]'' (1927) (1927/28 Academy Award winner, Best Actress Janet Gaynor)

[[Image:Fox_Film_Corporations.JPG|thumb|Fox Film title card from the movie ''Sunrise'']]

* ''[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise]]'' (1927), one of the first films in the sound-on-film system Fox [[Movietone]]; only the musical score was heard. 1927/28 Academy Award winner, Best Actress Janet Gaynor)

* ''[[None But the Brave]]'' (1928, with [[Technicolor]] sequences)

* ''[[Street Angel]]'' (1928)(1927/28 Academy Award winner, Best Actress Janet Gaynor)

* ''[[In Old Arizona]]'' (1928, Fox's first all-talkie, Academy Award winner) (1928/29 Academy Award winner, Best Actor Warner Baxter)

* ''[[Fox Movietone Follies of 1929]]'' (1929, with [[Multicolor]] sequences)

* ''[[Married in Hollywood]]'' (1929, with [[Multicolor]] sequences)

* ''[[Sunny Side Up]]'' (1929, with [[Multicolor]] sequences)

== Further reading ==

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| first =Isagani A.

| last =Cruz

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| title =The Tragedy Of Andres Bonifacio

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| title =[http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN03016030&id=hNFEgCAB9rAC&dq=%22Andr%C3%A9s+Bonifacio%22+%22Katipunan%22 The Katipunan: Or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune]

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*{{cite journal

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| last = Quezon III

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| month =November 21

| title =The Supremo Lives

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*{{cite journal

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| title =Thinking Aloud Dead Ends Need Not Be Dead

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| title =Bonifacio: The Neglected Hero

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*{{cite journal

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| title =Where Are the Bones of Bonifacio?

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* ''[[New Movietone Follies of 1930]]'' (1930, with [[Multicolor]] sequences)

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* ''[[Happy Days (1929 film)|Happy Days]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[Are You There?]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[High Society Blues]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[Just Imagine]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[The Big Trail]]'' (1930)

| last =San Luis

* ''[[Song O' My Heart]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[Cameo Kirby]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[Cheer Up and Smile]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[Man Trouble]]'' (1930)

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* ''[[Delicious (film)|Delicious]]'' (1931, with [[Multicolor]] sequences)

| title =Bonifacio & our changing notion of 'hero'

* ''[[East Lynne]]'' (1931)

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* ''[[Charlie Chan Carries On]]'' (1931)

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* ''A Connecticut Yankee'' (non-musical version, with [[Will Rogers]]) (1931)

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* ''[[Charlie Chan's Chance]]'' (1932)

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* ''[[Call Her Savage]]'' (1932)

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* ''[[Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932 film)|Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]]'' (1932)

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* ''[[Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film)|Tess of the Storm Country]]'' (1932)

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* ''[[Hoopla]]'' (1933)

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* ''[[Cavalcade (film)|Cavalcade]]'' (1932/33, Academy Award winner, "Best Picture")

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* ''[[State Fair]]'' (1933) (non-musical version, with Will Rogers)

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* ''[[Stand Up and Cheer!]]'' (1934)

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* ''[[Bright Eyes (film)|Bright Eyes]]'' (1934) a miniature [[Academy Award]] was given to Shirley Temple for this film

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* ''[[Judge Priest ]]'' (1934)

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* ''[[Dante's Inferno (film)|Dante's Inferno]]'' (1935)

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* ''[[Steamboat 'Round the Bend]]'' (1935)

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| journal =Philippine Daily

Also see: {{mainarticle|List of 20th Century Fox films}}

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==20th Television/20th Century Fox Television==

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{{mainarticle|20th Century Fox Television}}

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20th Television is Fox's television [[Television syndication|syndication]] division. 20th Century Fox Television is the studio's television production division.

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== The 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare ==

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The distinctive Art Deco skyline 20th Century Fox logo originated as the 20th Century Pictures logo, with the name "Fox" substituted for "Pictures, Inc.".

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The music accompanying the Fox logo was composed in 1933 by [[Alfred Newman]], longtime head of Fox's music department. [http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/thatsHollywood.html]

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In 1954, an extended version was created for [[CinemaScope]] films, and debuted on the film ''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]''. The current version is a re-recording conducted by [[David Newman (composer)|David Newman]] in 1997. [http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/stories/studiologos/page3.html] ''([http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/soundex/74629287.mp3 MP3 file] of extended version)''

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== Popular culture references and spoofs ==<!-- This section is linked from [[The Doors (album)]] -->

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* "Twentieth Century Fox" is also the [[pun]]ning title of a song by [[The Doors]] on their [[The Doors (album)|self-titled debut album]] ([[1967]]), referring to a foxy lady.

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*''21st Century Fox'' was the title of an album by [[Samantha Fox]], as well as many articles about both the film studio and various attractive women in many publications.

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*In the 1993 [[Mel Brooks]] movie ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' (which was released by Fox), Robin and his Merry Men enlist "12th Century Fox," a messenger service that uses foxes, to call the villagers for help.

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* The animated science-fiction TV series ''[[Futurama]]'', set around the year 3000, closed with a logo for "30th Century Fox." An episode later explained the powerful spotlights at 30th Century Fox were used to blind pilots so that Fox cameramen could film the resulting planecrashes.

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==Bibliography==

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== External links ==

* Custen, George F., ''Twentieth Century's Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood''; New York: BasicBooks, 1997; ISBN 0-465-07619-X

*[http://www.filipiniana.net/read_content.jsp?filename=BKW000000005&page=1&epage=3 The Courtmartial of Andres Bonifacio] Historical court documents and testimonies in the trial and execution of Andres and Procopio Bonifacio processed by [http://www.filipiniana.net Filipiniana.net]

==See also==

*[http://www.filipiniana.net/read_content.jsp?filename=BKW000000004&page=1&epage=1 Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog] Summary and full text of an article written by Andres Bonifacio in the Katipunan newspaper Kalayaan posted in [http://www.filipiniana.net Filipiniana.net]

*[[Fox Atomic]]

*[http://www.bibingka.com/phg/books/bonifacio.htm Book Review Inventing a Hero by Glenn May]

*[[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]

*[http://bonifaciopapers.blogspot.com A site on the ''Supremo'' and the Katipunan]

*[[20th Century Fox Animation]]

*[[Fox Entertainment Group]]

*[[Fox Broadcasting Company]]

*[[Blu-ray Disc Association]]

*[[List of Hollywood movie studios]]

*[[List of movies]]

*[[CinemaScope]]

*[[20th Century Fox Television]]

*[[Twentieth Century Pictures|20th Century Pictures Inc]]

*[[20th Century Fox Studio Classics]] - A premium DVD collection

*[[Fox Interactive]]

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==External links==

* [http://www.foxmovies.com FoxMovies.com]

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