Victory Pictures

Victory Pictures Corporation (formerly until 1930, Victory Motion Picture Distributing Company) was a Canadian film production and distribution company founded in 1915 by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, future founders of United Artists, American rival company.

it's movies are made at Charlie Chaplin Studios (until 1928) and the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios.

after Goldwyn left UA, it's movies are announced to be made at North Shore Studios in 1940, and Became the Largest Studios of Canada.

History
in 1915, the company was founded by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin to make it Canada's first movie company. in 1916, their first movie, Less Than the Dust, was distributed by Artcraft Pictures.

in 1919, Victory became a canadian distributor of United Artists movies. the company became the first movie studio of Canada. due to sound films coming to Hollywood in 1928, the company started to distribute it's own movies and release 25 films a year. However, these movies are made at the United Artists Studio until 1940.

in 1937, Victory sold the Pickford lot to Samuel Goldwyn, but not UA's movies. Canada's success of the first studio made Canada's second movie studio, Mount Temple Pictures, distributing 30 movies a year. also, Temple distributed films from Walt Disney Productions and Paramount Pictures in Canada.

in 1962, Victory reacquired United Artists' pre-1952 library (except for all Disney cartoons 1932 and 1937, Twentieth Century Pictures films, and Samuel Goldwyn Productions films) and Canada's third studio called Cinépix Film Properties was created.

in 1967, the North Shore Studio ended it's movie making with Victory, which became a distributor of American International Pictures films of Canada and purchased the RKO Radio Pictures library in Canada. in 1968, the company built it's own studio called the Vancouver Film Studios to create 40 films a year.

in 1975, AIP's deal with Victory ended and the RKO Radio library was sold to UA against Victory. in 1980, the company was absorbed into Cinépix Film Properties, witch became Lionsgate Pictures Corporation.

Library
in 1987, all of 3,000 films from Victory are purchased by Vestron Pictures, which was purchased in the middle of 1992 by Live Entertainment, then Artisan Entertainment, then Lionsgate Entertainment (now Lionsgate Holdings).