Silent Studio Directory - 194 - Merit Film Corp. - US - 1916-1922 - located at 130 W. 46th St., New York with I. E. Chadwick as V. P. Mermaid Comedies - 1921-1923 - trade name for Jack White comedy shorts produced by Astra Film Corp and distributed through Educational Film Corp. Mesco Pictures - US - 1921 - production and distribution company formed to produce and distribute Jesse James films by his son Jesse E. James. Meteor Film - UK - 1913-1914 - distribution company formed by Frank Cross, William Albert Habberfield, Joseph Oakley and Henry Wood with offices at 15-16 Brewer St. Winchester. Metro Goldwyn Pictures Co. - SWEDEN - 1924 - distributor for Metro Goldwyn films. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. - US - 1924 - production and distribution company formed with the merger of Metro Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures; following year became Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp. - US - 1925-current - production and distribution company formed from the merger of Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. with Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Metro Pictures Corp. - US - 1915- 1924 - distribution company formed March 5, 1915 with Richard Rowland as president and Louis B. Mayer as secretary; re-organization of Al Lichtman’s Alco Pictures which had formed a year earlier and was distributing films for All Star Feature Corp.; became distributors for Amalgamated Producing Co., C. E. Shurtleff Inc., Comique Film Corp., Consolidated Film Corp., Drew Comedies, Dyreda Art Film Corp., Erbograph Co., Graf Productions, Inc., Harry Garson Productions, Hope Hampton Productions, Inc., Hunt Stromberg Productions, Inspiration Pictures, Inc., Iroquois Films, Murray W. Garsson Productions, Nazimova Productions, Inc., Quality Pictures Corp., Popular Plays and Players, Quality Film Productions, Quality Pictures Corp., Rolfe Photoplays, Inc., S-L Productions, Samuel Zierler Photoplay Corp., Sawyer Lubin Productions, Serial Producing Corp., Solax Films, Thomas H. Ince Corp., Tiffany Film Corp., Yorke Film Corp., and Columbia