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Solax Film Corporation  
Type of Company Production company
Country of Origination United States of America
Years of Operation Active circa 1912 through circa June 1914
Company Principals Herbert Blaché
Alice Guy Blaché
Company Offices Flushing, New York, USA
Company Studios Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA (built 1911 or 1912, destroyed by fire December 1919)

Solax Film Corporation productions were distributed through 1913 by Film Supply Company of America. By late 1913, Solax productions may have been distributed through Box Office Attractions Company. The company was previously known as Solax Company.

References: Robinson-Palace pp. 97-98, 113.

 

[unknown publication, December 1919, page ?] Employees to the number of 50 were in extreme peril on Saturday morning last and barely excaped death when the laboratory connected with the Solax Film Company, on Le Moine [or Lemoine] avenue, was rocked by an explosion and entirely destroyed by fire that followed.

[Documentary footage of the studio fire on Vimeo]

 
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