Silent Studio Directory - 301 - United Kingdom Films - UK - 1913-1915 - distribution company formed by Augustine Charles Joseph Brean, Joseph Herbert Brean, Nicholson Ormsby-Scott and Henry Thomas Roberts with offices at 11 Cecil Court Westminster; distribution in the U.S. was by states rights through James McEnnery Heidelberg Bldg. New York. United Kingdom Photoplays - 1913-1915 - production company with distribution through United Kingdom Films. United Photo Plays Co. - US - 1917 - production company located at 2332-38 N. California Ave., Chicago, Illinois. United Picture Productions Corp. - US - 1919 - production company formed by principals of United Picture Theatres of America, Inc.; formed to supply films. United Picture Theatres of America, Inc. - US - 1918-1919 - distribution company formed as a co-operative to release films financed by exhibitors; offices located at 1600 Broadway, New York, with J. A. Berst as president; in 1919, merged with World Film Corp. United States Amusement Corp. - US - 1914-1918 - production company formed by Herbert Blache and Alice Guy Blache; a reformation and division of Solax Studio; production was done at Solax and distribution first through World Pictures, then Art Dramas, Inc., and finally through Metro. United States Exhibitors Booking Corp. - US - 1917-1919 - distribution company formed by Frank G. Hall and William Oldknow; purchased productions and rented them direct to exhibitors in an attempt to eliminate the states rights distributors; went out of business in 1919.