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Anyone have any information on "Record Pictures"? They appear to have been a poverty row studio and/or subsidiary of Pathe, who put out some late silents (mostly one-reelers.)

RECORD PICTURES was a company which produced 5 different titles between 1927 and 1929. Four of these were copyrighted by Pathe Exchange. Those titles are: FROM SOUP TO NUTS (1927--not the Laurel & Hardy short from 1928); ORIENTAL ALBUM (1927); PLEASURE HUNTING (1928); WEAKER SEX (1927). The other title is CURIOSITIES, a series of one-reel shorts produced by Van Beuren. Of some 26 shorts (most of which were distributed by FBO), RECORD PICTURES is on record of copyright of 3 of these in 1929.
There is no distinction made as to the length of most of the films. However, PLEASURE HUNTING is copyrighted as a one-reeler.

It was the concern of a guy named Walter Futter, a former film cutter who parlayed an early career at Hearst's Cosmopolitan Films into being a kind of bargain-basement James A. Fitzpatrick. He assembled travelling and curiosity shorts from stock footage and later, specially commissioned actuality footage. These were initially released through Educational, then FBO/RKO, and later Columbia.

I don't recall when the Record Pictures brand was discontinued, but he persisted with shorts until the early 30s, before making some truly bottom-of-the-barrel features in the sound era under other banners.

His page on Find-A-Grave has a little more information:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/596 ... r-a-futter

Rick Lanham