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Fandor was a German toy company that specialized in toy trains, particularly toys styled after American trains. It was founded by Joseph Kraus and his cousins, Milton and Julius Forcheimer, all from Nuremberg, Germany. The name was derived from the names of the founders' mothers, Dora and Fanny.
Protective tariffs following World War I made it difficult for German firms to compete with American toy companies, so the Forcheimer brothers emigrated to the United States, taking one of Fandor's engineers, John C. Koerber, with them, where they founded the U.S. company Dorfan.
Fandor is an American subscription movie viewing service and social video sharing platform.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was established in 2010 and officially launched on March 9, 2011 at the South by Southwest festival and conference in Austin, Texas.
Fandor "specializes in independent films, classics, silent films, foreign films, documentaries and shorts". Most of Fandor's more than 6,000 films are outside mainstream channels and are from different cultures, time periods, and genres. The service streams content to home theaters (through devices like Roku), computers, mobile devices and tablets, like Apple Inc.'s iPad.
In September 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival Fandor announced that the site was launching to audiences in Canada.