Silent Studio Directory - 299 - Union Film Publishing Co. Ltd - UK - 1912-1916 - production and distribution company formed by Sidney Harrison Callow, Archibald Leslie Gibson, John Edward Hookway, and George William Pearson in association with Pathe; located at 167-169 Wardour St., Westminster, and studio at Great Portland St.; produced comedy series under trade name of Big Ben Films. Union-Film - GERMANY - 1912- - distribution company for imported films. Union Photoplay Co. - US - 1914- 1915 - production company formed by Charles R. Macauley to produce cartoon shorts. Unique Film Co. - SHANGHAI - 1925-1937 - [see Tianyi Film Co.] Unique Film Co. Inc. - US - 1913 - production and distribution company located at 110-112 West 40th Street, New York. United Artists Corp. - US - 1919- 1983 - production and distribution company formed April 17, 1919 with offices located at 729 7th Ave. New York; Oscar Price was president, but was soon replaced by Hiram Abrams and Dennis O’Brien as V. P.; initially set up for the production of Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith but expanded to major distribution companies all over the world; distribution in France as Les Artistes Associes S. A.