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	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To avoid violating Edison's motion picture patents, Biograph cameras from 1895 used a large-format film 2-23/32 inches (68mm) wide, with an image area of 2 by 2-1/2 inches, instead of Edison's 35mm format.
		Among Biograph's other accomplishments were being the first producers to film the Pope at the Vatican (1896); and the first company to shoot a movie specifically in Hollywood, D.W. Griffith's In Old California (1910).
		The Biograph Co. released its last new feature-length films in 1915, its last new short films in 1916, and was dissolved by 1929.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biograph_Studios (585 words)

	Kalem Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Marion had been the sales manager at Biograph Studios and Samuel Long was the manager of the Biograph production facility at Hoboken, New Jersey.
		The partners were able to lure general manager and director Sidney Olcott away from Biograph who eventually became the Kalem Company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.
		Kalem was also one of the first studios to regularly film year-round by setting up facilities in Florida during the winter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalem_Company (1008 words)

	Biograph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, a silent movie era production company widely known as Biograph or Biograph Studios.
		The Biograph -- an early-type movie projector invented by Herman Casler, 1896; similar to a Kinetoscope.
		Biographe an early-type camera invented by Georges Demenÿ, 1896.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biograph (108 words)

	Sidney Olcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With a desire to be an actor, a young Sidney Olcott went to New York City where he worked in the theater until 1904 when he performed as a film actor with the Biograph Studios.
		After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including "Ben-Hur" with its dramatic chariot race scene, Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.
		Despite making the studio owners very rich men, they refused to increase his salary beyond the $150 a week he was then earning.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/s/si/sidney_olcott.html (563 words)

	Yahoo! Groups : biograph
		Biograph began in 1895 near the dawn of a new century.
		Biograph launched the careers of such famous individuals as director D. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish among many others.
		Biograph also discovered a nice little village to shoot in when they were in California in 1910.
	www.egroups.com /group/biograph (297 words)

	Bio of D.W. Griffith
		Biograph was one of the first motion picture studios in America, when films were sold outright by the foot, and not rented as they are today.
		When Griffith first came to Biograph, the studio was only selling about 20 copies of each new film and was in poor financial condition.
		Biograph was in pressing need of a director.
	www.2020site.org /griffith/bio.html (1232 words)

	BIOGRAPH The oldest movie company in America News
		Biograph also intends to be an active leader in the restoration of historical Hollywood and to help promote in any way the district, and bring back the legendary grandeur of this magical place.
		Biograph studios is outraged at the bashing of Hollywood, and the continued misuse of the word “Hollywood”.
		Biograph’s CEO Thomas Bond II says “This is an exciting historic event, and we are proud of this DVD that it will perpetuate the history of Hollywood and of the Hispanic influence in early motion picture history”.
	www.biographcompany.com /about_us/news.html (4679 words)

	Jack Pickford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1910, he was only 14 years old when, with the help of his sister, he was signed to perform in motion pictures with Biograph Studios.
		After Biograph opened its studios in Hollywood, California, the Pickford clan moved west.
		In those days, the movie studios were able to cover up almost all of their stars' misbehavior, but within the Hollywood crowd Jack Pickford's behind-the scenes antics made him a legend in his own time.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jack_Pickford (696 words)

	Florence Lawrence biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		D.W. Griffith, the head of Biograph Studios, saw one of Vitagraph's films with a beautiful blonde-haired girl whose screen presence captured his interest.
		Needing a star, he lured Lawrence away from Biograph by promising to give her a marquee, making her the first performer to be identified by name on screen and in film advertising.
		In 1915, she was badly burned in a studio fire after an attempt to rescue someone from the flames.
	florence-lawrence.biography.ms (935 words)

	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1899 it changed its name to the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
		Biograph was eclipsed by other movie production companies in the 1920s, by the end of the decade it was in financial difficulty and did not have the money to convert to sound production (or talkies) forcing it out of the movie production business in 1929.
		In 1987 the company was acquired by producer Thomas R. Bond, son of Tommy Bond, who played "Butch" in Our Gang (The Little Rascals).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Biograph_Studios (566 words)

	Fort Lee, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cities in New Jersey offered land at costs considerably less than New York City, and the cities and towns of New Jersey near New York benefited greatly as a result of the phenomonal growth of the film indusry at the turn of the 20th century.
		In 1909 a forerunner of Universal Studios, the, built the first studio.
		In the 1910s and 1920s, film companies such as the,, The Solax Company,, Goldwyn Picture Corporation,, Biograph Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Pathé Frères, Metro Pictures Corporation, Victor Film Company, were all making pictures in Fort Lee.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey (849 words)

	Articles - Movie studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the USA when he constructed the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville and dramatic actors to perform for the camera.
		The first movie studio in the Hollywood area was Nestor Studios, which was opened in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley.
		With the end of "the Studios" and the continued incursion of television into the audience for film, more and more companies became simply management structures which put together artistic teams on a project-by-project basis, usually renting space from some of the surviving studios, which is still the norm today.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Movie_studio (1171 words)

	TAKE ONE: Who was the first Canadian movie star? D.W. Griffith, the Keystone Kops and the Canadian Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Biograph is the abbreviated name commonly used for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
		It developed into one of the most active forces in the early years of American cinema and its studios at 11 East 14th Street in New York City were the spawning ground for such formative talents as Griffith and Mack Sennett.
		By the time she was five she was known as "Baby Gladys," touring for several years and working on Broadway before joining Biograph in 1909 at the age of 16.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_46_13/ai_n6118272 (1208 words)

	Biograph Studios Exposes American Nazi Agenda
		Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) February 15, 2005 -- Biograph Entertainment re-opens the movement and expose documentary on the travesty of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the 39 year old woman who is being starved to death by the removal of a feeding tube in Florida, and many other so called "Murders" like hers that occur around the country.
		Biograph is the oldest movie company in America, established in 1895.
		Thomas R. Bond, II — President and CEO of Biograph's aunt died on November 23rd, 2004, due to lack of care at a temporary convalescent facility in San Diego.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2005/2/prweb208519.htm (1070 words)

	BIOGRAPH The oldest movie company in America Billy Bitzer
		Bitzer started his career as a cameraman in 1896 with the then Biograph Studios, located at 841 Broadway, New York.
		Prior to the name Biograph, the company was called the Magic Introduction Company, then the American Mutoscope Company.
		It was at this time D.W. Griffith decided to leave Biograph and their restrictive policies, taking Bitzer with him.
	www.biographcompany.com /celebrity/bitzer.html (1878 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Owen Moore
		While working at D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studios, Owen Moore met a young Canadian actress named Gladys Smith whom he married on January 7, 1911.
		In 1912, he signed on with Victor Studios, co-starring in a number of their films with studio owner/actress Florence Lawrence.
		So much in demand, Mary Pickford left Biograph Studios to join the IMP Co. who had lost their major star, Pickford’s Canadian friend, Florence Lawrence.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Owen_Moore (471 words)

	Sidney Olcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including "Ben Hur" (1907) with its dramatic chariot race scene, Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.
		The Irish films led to him taking a crew to Palestine in 1912 to make the first five-reel film ever, titled "From the Manger To the Cross," the life story of Jesus.
		Olcott was a founding member of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America and would later serve as its president.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sidney_Olcott (634 words)

	Miskatonic University Department of Literature
		She was also the first star to be known by name and, the most popular player at Biograph aas well as one of the great stars of the early American stage.
		She joined Biograph at a salary of $25 per week and became “The Biograph Girl,” simply because the company did not want to release the names of players.
		Leaving Biograph in 1912, Sennett set up his own studio, with principal financing from ex-bookies Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman; Sennett later claimed that he owed Kessel and Bauman money, and convinced them it would be to their advantage to invest in movies rather than beat him up for a bad debt.
	www.yankeeclassic.com /miskatonic/dliterature/authors/chambers/works/rwcbibl-films1908.htm (1407 words)

	Videographers.ByCityWeb.com - videographer provider Delafield Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Biograph Studios is a wedding videography company, located in the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas area.
		Biograph Studios uses four cameras and seven sound tracks to capture the moments of your entire wedding exactly as it is happening.
		In keeping with their theme, Biograph Studios has used a white background with a strip of fl film running down the left of the page for the index and photographs.
	videographers.bycityweb.com /Illinois/Delafield/whoweare.php3 (422 words)

	Filmmaker biographies: David Wark Griffith - pioneer movie director
		It was Griffith who had saved the ailing Biograph Studios from bankruptcy and, through his incredible talent, had made it a leader in the fledgling movie industry.
		Between 1908 and 1913, Griffith directed over 570 films for Biograph, yet in the entire time his name never appeared on the credits -- nor did those of his actors.
		Biograph was a member of the Motion Picture Patents Company, a trust organized by Thomas Edison and his associates to restrict production of motion pictures to ten companies, to eliminate further competition.
	wvwv.essortment.com /davidwarkgriff_oio.htm (1073 words)

	snarkout: a star was born
		Lawrence had made a ridiculous number of movies for D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studio (the same studio that would give Mary Pickford her first starring roles).
		She vindicated Biograph's fears by leaving IMP for even more money at another studio; now that actors got name billing, they could move from studio to studio and retain their fan base.
		Lawrence was replaced at IMP by another young Canadian actress and veteran of the Biograph Studios, D.W. Griffith's favorite, Mary Pickford.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2003/10/22 (659 words)

	Blazing the Trail Part Three
		Biograph was losing its fight against the Motion Picture Patents Company and desperately up against it for scenarios, actors and a market.
		I was not happy at Biograph where I spent most of my time working over scenarios in the office, my writing interrupted by a steady stream of visitors whom I had to interview.
		Bitzer told me on the one occasion I saw him after leaving Biograph (which was Mary Pickford's ball of farewell to the screen when she returned to the stage with Belasco) that he and Griffith oftentimes sat up all night working out together some photographic effect.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/4_blaze3.htm (3264 words)

	Judith of Bethulia commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Biograph had already released a few of Griffith's two-reelers as single films, but without Biograph being aware of what he was doing, Griffith secretly produced his first four-reel film in 1913, "Judith of Bethulia," in Chatsworth, California.
		Biograph thought so little of the film that they didn't bother to release it until 1914, after Griffith had left the company.
		When he signed with the Fox studio in Hollywood, his rugged, weather beaten look was ideal as a cowboy, and under the guidance of John Ford, he made many features and two-reelers as Cheyenne Harry.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /featurefolder3/judithcommentary.html (1851 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Richmond, Quebec, Sennett was a son of Irish immigrants.
		Sennett was a singer, dancer, clown, actor, set designer and director for Biograph, and founded Keystone Studios in 1912 together with Adam Kessel.
		In 1927, Hollywood's two top studios, Paramount and MGM, seeing the profits coming in from short-subject companies like Pathé and Educational, both got back into their own distribution and production after several years.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Mack_Sennett (648 words)

	MPPC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MPPC stands for Motion Picture Patents Company, also known as the Edison Trust, also known as the First Oligopoly.
		The MPPC was a trust of all the major film companies (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé), the leading distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak.
		At the time of the formation of the MPPC, Thomas Edison owned most of the major patents relating to motion pictures, especially that for raw film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MPPC (283 words)

	Florence Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like other studios, Biograph did not identify its actors by name, for fear that they would become too popular as individuals and start to ask for more money.
		In 1915, she was severely burned in a fire at the studio, reportedly while trying to rescue another performer.
		Lawrence's grave marker identifies her as "The Biograph Girl" and "The First Movie Star." Lawrence's mother, Charlotte Bridgwood (1861 - 1929), who was known professionally as Lotta Lawrence, is buried in the Columbarium behind the chapel at Hollywood Forever.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /lawrence.html (400 words)

	Ostriche, Muriel
		Her plans changed one day, while she was in high school, when she encountered W. Christy Cabanne on the street and was invited by him to take a screen test at the American Biograph studios.
		She did this, and in autumn 1911 she joined Biograph as an extra in several films, after which the budding actress went to Powers, Pathé, and then to the newly-formed American Eclair Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where she spent a year under the direction of Etienne Arnaud and appeared in many films.
		She relates her beginning in the film field: "One of the most wonderful examples of success as a photoplayer without having had any previous experience or training in stage work is Miss Muriel Ostriche, a dainty, bewitching little miss of 17 summers.
	www.thanhouser.org /people/ostrichem.htm (1128 words)

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