- Active in the motion picture exhibition/distribution business from the 1900s-1930s.
- In 1922, Weiss became president and general manager of independent production/distribution company Artclass Pictures, a low-budget outfit that had been founded (coincidentally) by the Weiss Bros. - Adolph Weiss, Louis Weiss, and Max Weiss (no relation to Alfred).
- Considered a pioneer in the motion picture industry, operating an influential distribution company in the 1910s that contracted with the Triangle Film Corporation, and later serving as vice-president of the Goldwyn Distribution Corporation from 1917 to 1922.
- A businessman with interests in, around, and outside the motion picture industry, Alfred Weiss at one time or another served as an executive at companies including Goldwyn Distribution Corporation, Weiss Brothers Artclass Pictures, Agfa Raw Film Corporation, American Multi-Color Corporation, Red Seal Pictures, Inkwell Studios, the Biophone Corporation, the Film Circulation Corporation, and the Consolidated Theatre Supply Corporation.
- Several Inkwell Studios films survive today in versions distributed by the Film Circulation Corporation. The company rented a library of 16mm films on the home and industrial markets in the 1930s, and was owned by Weiss, the former Inkwell president.
- Alfred Weiss's obituary appeared in the November 21, 1940, edition of The New York Times, the November 27, 1940, edition of Variety, and the November 30, 1940, edition of Motion Picture Herald. (Details in the Motion Picture Herald obit seem to occasionally confuse Weiss with Adolph Weiss.).
- Weiss penned an article in the January 1939 edition of "Radio Retailing", in his capacity as president of the Film Circulation Corporation. His column was titled, "Teaching with Talking Pictures", and promoted the use of modern, affordable talking motion picture machines in educational and industrial settings. (Weiss's company manufactured and sold just such machines.).
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