Editing King Vidor (section)

===Brentwood Film Corporation and the "Preachment" films, 1918–1919===
In 1918, at the age of 24, Vidor directed his first Hollywood feature, ''[[The Turn in the Road]]'' (1919), a film presentation of a [[Christian Science]] evangelical tract sponsored by a group of doctors and dentists affiliated as the independent Brentwood Film Corporation. Vidor recalls of his first foray into Hollywood film-making:{{blockquote|I wrote a script [The Turn in the Road] and sent it around&nbsp;... and nine doctors put up $1,000 each&nbsp;... and it was a success. That was the beginning. I didn't have time to go to college.<ref>Thompson, 2011<br />Baxter, 1976. p. 9: "the production is frankly a preachment, noted the [[New York Times]]" and p. 11. Baxter refers to the "preachment" film ''The Turn in the Road''.<br />Gustafsson. 2016: The film "advocated views associated with Christian Science (not to be confused with [[Scientology]]), a then relatively new religious movement that came about towards the end of the 19th century and to which Vidor claimed allegiance."<br />Higham 1972: "a team of businessmen supported him in making a work exemplifying his own Christian Science principles."</ref>}}

Vidor would make three more films for the Brentwood Corporation, all of which featured as yet unknown comedienne [[Zasu Pitts]], who the director had discovered on a Hollywood streetcar. The films ''[[Better Times (film)|Better Times]]'', ''[[The Other Half (1919 film)|The Other Half]]'', and ''[[Poor Relations]]'', all completed in 1919, also featured future film director [[David Butler (director)|David Butler]] and starred Vidor's then wife Florence Arto Vidor (married in 1915), a rising actor in Hollywood pictures. Vidor ended his association with the Brentwood group in 1920.<ref>Baxter, 1976. P. 9<br />Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 26: "Vidor's first five features are lost&nbsp;..."</ref>