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Astra Film Corp

American film production company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ85743440 ↗
Source-derived summary

Astra Film Corp was an American film production company that produced silent films. Louis J. Gasnier was the company's president. George B. Seitz co-founded it. It was making films by 1916. It became Louis J. Gasnier Productions after Seitz left.

The studio operated in Jersey City, New Jersey before expanding to Fort Lee, New Jersey.

The Fort Lee studio site at 1 Congress Street was acquired from Pathé in 1916. The company distributed its films with Pathé. Rolin Studio in Los Angeles also worked with Pathé.

The company's Hands Up serial included a storyline featuring the Inca.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Astra Film Corp” as american film production company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Astra, Film and Corp can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as american film production company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85743440. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916.

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This entry incorporates text from “Astra Film Corp” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.