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Embassy Pictures

Former American film and distribution company

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Embassy Pictures Corporation was an American independent film production and distribution company, which was active from 1942 to 1986. Embassy was responsible for films such as The Graduate, The Producers, The Fog, The Howling, Escape from New York, This Is Spinal Tap, and Swamp Thing, and television series such as The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and The Facts of Life.

Editorial summary

“Embassy Pictures” enters the record as former American film and distribution company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Embassy, Pictures and Former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1942, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Embassy, Pictures and Former.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Embassy Pictures” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Embassy, Pictures and Former provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1942 and 1986.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Embassy Pictures”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Embassy Pictures primary sources, Embassy Pictures archive and Embassy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Embassy Pictures”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Embassy Pictures” 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.