Editing 20th Century Studios (section)

== Motion picture film processing ==
From its earliest ventures into movie production, [[Fox Film|Fox Film Corporation]] operated its own processing laboratories. The original lab was located in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]] along with the studios. A lab was included with the new studio built in Los Angeles in 1916.<ref>Fox Folks Vol. I, No. 4, August 1922.</ref> Headed by [[Alan E. Freedman]], the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in Manhattan in 1919.<ref>Fox Folks Vol. I, No. 4, August 1922.  Also, Vol. III, No. 7, July 1924, p. 12 and back outside cover, and Vol. III, No. 8, August 1924, p. 8.</ref> In 1932, Freedman bought the labs from Fox for $2,000,000 to bolster what at that time was a failing Fox liquidity.<ref>Image, DeLuxe Laboratories, Inc. check 101 to Fox Film Corporation for $2,000,000.</ref><ref name="FilmDaily">{{Cite news |date=April 3, 1932 |title=Freedman Group Buys Fox Film Laboratories |page=1 |work=[[Film Daily]] |location=United States |url=https://archive.org/stream/filmdailyvolume55859newy#page/799/mode/1up |access-date=April 29, 2016}}</ref> He renamed the operation "DeLuxe Laboratories," which much later became [[Deluxe Entertainment Services Group]]. In the 1940s Freedman sold the labs back to what was then 20th Century Fox and remained as president into the 1960s. Under Freedman's leadership, DeLuxe added two more labs in Chicago and Toronto and processed film from studios other than Fox, such as [[United Artists|UA]] and [[Universal Pictures|Universal]].