W. W. Hodkinson Corporation

The W. W. Hodkinson Corporation was a film distribution company active during the silent era, founded in November 1917 by William Wadsworth Hodkinson, who had earlier helped establish Paramount Pictures before being forced out in 1916. Hodkinson purchased Triangle Film's distribution network of film exchanges for 600,000 dollars to launch the company, which distributed more than a hundred films between 1918 and 1924, at times partnering with Pathe Exchange. In 1924 the company was sold to financier Jeremiah Millbank, who used it as the basis for the newly formed Producers Distributing Corporation.