This HTML5 document contains 45 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Namespace Prefixes

PrefixIRI
dctermshttp://purl.org/dc/terms/
yago-reshttp://yago-knowledge.org/resource/
dbohttp://dbpedia.org/ontology/
foafhttp://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
n14https://global.dbpedia.org/id/
yagohttp://dbpedia.org/class/yago/
dbthttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Template:
rdfshttp://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
freebasehttp://rdf.freebase.com/ns/
rdfhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
owlhttp://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
wikipedia-enhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
dbphttp://dbpedia.org/property/
dbchttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:
provhttp://www.w3.org/ns/prov#
xsdhhttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
wikidatahttp://www.wikidata.org/entity/
goldhttp://purl.org/linguistics/gold/
dbrhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/
n18https://stuart.imdb.com/company/co0042209/

Statements

Subject Item
dbr:Commonwealth_Pictures
rdf:type
yago:Group100031264 yago:SocialGroup107950920 yago:Organization108008335 yago:WikicatCompaniesEstablishedIn1937 dbo:Company yago:WikicatFilmProductionCompaniesOfTheUnitedStates yago:Institution108053576 yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity yago:Company108058098
rdfs:label
Commonwealth Pictures
rdfs:comment
Commonwealth Pictures was a motion picture company that primarily dealt with reissues of old features and shorts. The company was formed by Samuel Goldstein and Mortimer Sackett in 1937 as division of In 1941, they purchased shorts and features from the Van Beuren Studios, which used to handle short subjects in the 1930s for RKO Radio Pictures. Some of these films from Van Beuren were reissued silent films purchased by Van Beuren. Rainbow Parade cartoons were part of this package as well. Commonwealth retitled the cartoons, removing the Van Beuren openings, and just going with a plain title card. Also, the Ub Iwerks cartoon library was purchased by Commonwealth.
dcterms:subject
dbc:Film_distributors_of_the_United_States dbc:Mass_media_companies_established_in_1937 dbc:Film_production_companies_of_the_United_States
dbo:wikiPageID
5285779
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
1048971126
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbr:TelePrompTer_Corporation dbr:Guaranteed_Pictures_Company,_Inc. dbr:Rainbow_Parade dbc:Mass_media_companies_established_in_1937 dbr:David_Shepard_(film_preservationist) dbc:Film_distributors_of_the_United_States dbr:Ub_Iwerks dbr:Van_Beuren_Studios dbr:RKO_Pictures dbc:Film_production_companies_of_the_United_States
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
n18:
owl:sameAs
wikidata:Q5153826 freebase:m.0dcmgn n14:4heje yago-res:Commonwealth_Pictures
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbt:US-film-company-stub dbt:Dead_link dbt:Reflist
dbp:bot
InternetArchiveBot
dbp:date
July 2020
dbp:fixAttempted
yes
dbo:abstract
Commonwealth Pictures was a motion picture company that primarily dealt with reissues of old features and shorts. The company was formed by Samuel Goldstein and Mortimer Sackett in 1937 as division of In 1941, they purchased shorts and features from the Van Beuren Studios, which used to handle short subjects in the 1930s for RKO Radio Pictures. Some of these films from Van Beuren were reissued silent films purchased by Van Beuren. Rainbow Parade cartoons were part of this package as well. Commonwealth retitled the cartoons, removing the Van Beuren openings, and just going with a plain title card. Also, the Ub Iwerks cartoon library was purchased by Commonwealth. In the 1950s, Commonwealth released the Van Beuren and Iwerks material for television syndication. They, like Gutlohn Films, Inc., cut the opening titles so that only the last 5 seconds or so plays. Their standard title card was a blue background with yellow or orange lettering. In 1969, the Commonwealth library was sold to the TelePrompTer Corporation. In 1975, Blackhawk Films purchased the Teleprompter library, and today the Commonwealth library is in the hands of Film Preservation Associates. ceased operations all together in 1974.
gold:hypernym
dbr:Company
prov:wasDerivedFrom
wikipedia-en:Commonwealth_Pictures?oldid=1048971126&ns=0
dbo:wikiPageLength
2470
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
wikipedia-en:Commonwealth_Pictures