Butterfly (company)
Butterfly also known as Butterfly Pictures was a film production company that produced and released films spanned as part of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company program from 1917 to 1918.
History
In April 28, 1917, Butterfly Pictures was announced in Motography a new brand of feature films that would be released as part of the Universal exchanges. These films would be five reels in length and would be produced at the Universal Film Manufacturing Company studios in California.[1]
List of Butterfly films
| Name | Release date (Year/Month/Date) |
Director | Braff Index[2][lower-alpha 1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eternal Love | 1917-05-07 | Douglas Gerrard | 2180 |
| The Phantom's Secret | 1917-05-14 | Charles Swickard | 6167 |
| Like Wild Fire | 1917-05-21 | Stuart Paton | 4608 |
| Money Madness | 1917-05-25 | Henry McRae | 5360 |
| The Circus of Life | 1917-06-04 | Rupert Julian | 1350 |
| The Field of Honor | 1917-06-11 | Allen J. Holubar | 2379 |
| The Flame of Youth | 1917-06-23 | Elmer Clifton | 2533 |
| Man and Beast | 1917-06-25 | Henry McRae | 4982 |
| The Plow Woman | 1917-07-02 | Charles Swickard | 6248 |
| The Reed Case | 1917-07-09 | Allen J. Holubar | 6610 |
| High Speed | 1917-07-16 | George L. Sargent | 3566 |
| The Double Standard | 1917-07-23 | Phillips Smalley | 2005 |
| Follow the Girl | 1917-08-06 | Louis W. Chaudet | 2623 |
| The Midnight Man | 1917-08-13 | Elmer Clifton | 5221 |
| The Lair of the Wolf | 1917-08-20 | Charles Swickard | 4441 |
| Straight Shooting Alternatively: Joan of the Cattlelands | 1917-08-27 | John Ford | 7693 |
| Who Was the Other Man? | 1917-09-03 | Francis Ford | 9092 |
| The Little Pirate | 1917-09-10 | Elsie Jane Wilson | 4683 |
| The Spindle of Life | 1917-09-17 | George Cochrane | 7552 |
| The Edge of the Law | 1917-09-24 | Louis W. Chaudet | 2117 |
| The Secret Man | 1917-10-01 | John Ford | 7030 |
| The Girl Who Won Out | 1917-10-08 | Eugene Moore | 2978 |
| Forty Nine-Seventeen ('49-'17) | 1917-10-15 | Ruth Ann Baldwin | 2729 |
| Society's Driftwood | 1917-10-22 | Louis W. Chaudet | 7436 |
| A Marked Man | 1917-10-29 | John Ford | 5070 |
| John Ermine of the Yellowstone | 1917-11-05 | Francis Ford | 4248 |
| The Cricket | 1917-11-12 | Elsie Jane Wilson | 1541 |
| The Man from Montana | 1917-11-19 | George Marshall | 4989 |
| Fear Note | 1917-11-26 | Allen J. Holubar | 2357 |
| Fighting Maid | 1917-12-03 | Edward J. Le Saint | 2443 |
| The Silent Lady | 1917-12-10 | Elsie Jane Wilson | 7250 |
| Beloved Jim | 1917-12-17 | Stuart Paton | 528 |
| Bucking Broadway | 1917-12-24 | John Ford | 973 |
| The High Sign | 1917-12-31 | Elmer Clifton | 3564 |
| The Wolf and His Mate | 1918-01-07 | Edward J. Le Saint | 9257 |
| Madame Spy | 1918-01-21 | Douglas Gerrard | 4936 |
| A Kitchen Hero | 1918-04-06 | Allen Curtis | 4388 |
Notes
- ↑ Index listings instead of page numbers are provided for easier referencing of Braff's two volume index.
References
- ↑ "New Universal Brand". Motography. Electricity Magazine Corp. 1917. p. 898. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
- ↑ Braff, Richard E. (1999). The Universal Silents (Volume 1 and 2). McFarland & Company.
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