Silver-Gold Studios

Silver-Gold studios (also known as just Silver-Gold) is an American multinational-mass media and entertainment conglomerate located in Los Angles, California. It was first formed in 1923 after two brothers: Harry and Leon Fletcher merged their two separate companies together.

History
On 13th September 1923, two brothers: Harry and Leon Fletcher were both struggling financially. Because of this, the two had to merge their previous companies together: Gold Manufacturing Company and Silver Pictures Inc Respectively.

In January 1924, the brothers hired 5 people to join their team: Charles Fisher Sr, Carl King, Frank DiCicco, James Howell, and Gene Mullberry. During that time, the 7 animators would develop the Silver and Gold short cartoons together.

On April 19th 1925, the brothers released their 20-min short film titled: "Silver and Gold in: the moving picture". Which was a silent film where the two protagonists: Silver and Gold made a silent movie. This short was a huge success for its time.

In May 1927, they released their first short with sound titled "Gold reads a book" which was about Gold having a dream about a book he read last night. The short also had dialogue in too, making it the first short they did that included dialogue.

After the release of "Gold reads a book." The fictional duo became widely popular characters, with the animators making even more "Silver and Gold" cartoons than ever before.

In 1933, Gold and Silver started to become the face of childrens merchandise, even saving the company from the Great Depression that was shutting down other businesses.

In 1934, Leon Fletcher announced that he had just bought the rights to Edith Nesbit's "The Railway Children". Which would become the Studios first feature-lengh film. Eventually, the film was released two years later in 1936 and was a surprising success.

After the success of The Railway Children, Harry and Leon Fletcher financed construction on a more bigger studio nicknamed "the Railway". Construction was fully completed in 1941.

In 1942, the studios second film "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" was in the works, but this time it was a live-action animated hybrid, with all the animal characters being animated. Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm won the academy awards for "2nd best animated picture".