The Corvin Film Studio (in its original official name: Corvin Filmgyár és Filmkereskedelmi Rt.) established in 1916, was the largest film production company in Hungary, while the third-largest film company in Europe in the era of silent film. Their films were characterized by a high standard of literature and excellent artistic preparation. Road to foundation In 1916, the Corvin Film Studio was founded by Dr. Jenő Janovics, an influential Hungarian media entrepreneur; director of the Hungarian National Theater of Kolozsvár. The place of incorporation was in the city of Kolozsvár (Cluj, in Romanian; Clausenburg in German) the so-called capital of Transylvania. By this time, Janovics –who was rightly called the creator of Hollywood in Transylvania– already had serious film experiences. In 1913, he made the first Transylvanian film, The Yellow Foal (Sárga csikó) in co-production with the Parisian Pathé Film Studio. The film became a blockbuster with noisy success on all five continents. In 1914, he formed a joint venture with Projectograph, Hungary 's leading filmmaker, under the name Proja (Projectograph & Janovics). He had been working there among others with Michael Curtiz (Kertész Mihály) the future Academy Awards director, the famous The Exile (A tolonc) silent film was made by them. Foundation in Kolozsvár, 1916 In 1916, Janovics became independent of Projectograph setting up his new Corvin Film Studio in Kolozsvár. The company's name was a reference to the great 15th Century Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus. Janovics's production program concentrated largely on adaptations of popular and classic Hungarian literature. The young Alexander Korda (Korda Sándor) was discovered for Corvin by Janovics who brought him to his new film studio from Budapest in 1916. Foundation in Budapest, 1917 An increasingly dominant presence at the company was the young film director Korda who joined Corvin as a leading director. Korda directed there White Nights, one of the first Hungarian films to be shown outside the country. Next year Janovics sold the company to Korda and Miklós Pásztory. They exclusively contracted several stars of the age, including Arthur Somlay, Oszkár Beregi and Mihály Várkonyi. Korda's wife, actress María Corda starred in several Corvin productions too. Korda and Pásztory expanded into the Hungarian capital in the same year. On October 16, 1917, with a registered capital of one million korona, the Corvin Film Factory and Film Trade Co. was established even in Budapest. For more than 100 years, this film studio became the