Pilot Films Corporation

Pilot Films Corporation, also known as Pilot Films Company,^[1] was a short-lived American independent film production company founded in 1913.^[2] The company was located at 120 School St. in Yonkers, New York.^[3]

Advertisement for The Streets of New York 1913 film adapted from Dion Boucicault's The Poor of New York

A maker of silent films, the first film it released was The Blacksmith's Story (1913), directed by Travers Vale.^[2] Producing more than thirty films in the year 1913, it made several films starring the actress Lottie Pickford.^[2] In addition to making films at its studio in Yonkers, it also leased Balboa Films to create films in California;^[4] including the 1913 film Hoodman Blind directed by James Gordon.^[5]

Partial filmography

• The Sure Tip (1913)
• The Bug Professor (1913)
• The Streets of New York (1913), extant with Dutch intertitles from Eye Filmmuseum.^[6]
• School Days (1913), a comedy
• The Governor's Romance (1913), a drama
• For Old Time's Sake (1913), a drama
• When a Girl Loves (1913), a drama
• Child of the Hills (1913), a drama
• An Innocent Conspiracy (1913)
• The Code of the U.S.A. (1913)^[7]
• The Power of the Sea (1913)
• Across the Continent (1914), a 4 part adaptation of Oliver Doud Byron's^[8]