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Red Seal was a distribution company, set up by animation producer Max
Fleischer and one Edwin Miles Fadinman in 1924. It released both live
action and animated films (indeed primarily the former), both Fleischer
productions and those of other companies. The company stayed independent for two years before being bought out by Paramount. It may have been established by the theatrical entrepreneur Hugo Reisenfeld, who certainly knew Fleischer, and who may have had some operational control over it.

Red Seal specialised in short films, but it was behind the conversion of a
German feature-length animated scientific film into EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY, and then EVOLUTION, a re-edit of a Charles Urban film which nervously skirted around Darwinian theory. After Urban went bankrupt in 1925, Red Seal handled a number of the films from his library and the series titles REELVIEWS and SEARCHLIGHTS.

The company also handled the MARVELS OF MOTION series which featured in Eve’s Film Review in 1926.

Sources

Luke McKernan, September 2005: NoS Number 331372; Eve’s Film Review Number 248; Date released 4/3/1926: NoS Number 331425; Eve’s Film Review Number 259; Date released 20/5/1926.