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	Essanay Studios
		Essanay Studios was a motion picture company founded in Chicago, Illinois by George K. Spoor and Gilbert Anderson (Broncho Billy) under the name Essanay (S and A).
		It produced silent films with such stars as Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman[?], Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chaplin.
		When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the MPPC (Motion Picture Patents Company), the Essanay company collapsed and was sold after only ten years in business.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/es/Essanay_Studios.html (92 words)

	Amazon.ca: Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company: Books: David Kiehn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Anderson himself had the lead role in at least 300 films, and had a hand in almost everything produced in Niles as either the producer, director, writer, actor, or even set-builder.
		As the historian for the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, he had unparalleled access to the records, and he leaves out nothing.
		Like his films, this book is essential to an appreciation of the history of the American cinema, regardless of its weaknesses.
	www.amazon.ca /Broncho-Billy-Essanay-Film-Company/dp/0972922652 (1065 words)

	Essanay Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Essanay Studios was a motion picture company founded in Chicago, Illinois by George K. Spoor and Bronco Billy Anderson under the name Essanay ("S and A").
		It produced silent films with such stars as Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chaplin.
		When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the MPPC (Motion Picture Patents Company), the Essanay company collapsed and was sold after only ten years in business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Essanay_Studios (134 words)

	early animation
		Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. ; by Wallace Carlson.Dreamy Dud steals a man's pipe because he is fascinated with smoking and blowing smoke rings.
		From Edison films catalog: Upon a large sheet of white paper a cartoonist is seen at work rapidly sketching the portrait of an elderly gentleman of most comical feature and expression.
		After completing the likeness the artist rapidly draws on the paper a clever sketch of a bottle of wine and a goblet, and then, to the surprise of all, actually removes them from the paper on which they were drawn and pours actual wine out of the bottle into a real glass.
	www.euriskodata.com /products/animation.htm (2261 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		They also proudly announced the establishment of the American Film Manufacturing Company, otherwise known as the Flying A. Proclaiming that they would make "American Film for the American People," Freuler and Hutchinson asserted that every employee of their studio and office had from two to five years previous experience in the young motion picture industry.
		Essanay had been formed in 1907, and represented the initials of its founders, George K. Spoor, a Chicago film distributor and exhibitor, and Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, the famed cowboy actor, director and producer.
		Essanay did not establish a permanent studio in San Diego County, possibly because the rival American Film Manufacturing Company was already operating in the Lakeside-La Mesa area.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/76fall/film.htm (3647 words)

	American Indians in Silent Film: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, ...
		The decision about which films to include on this list was not based on the positive or negative aspects of an Indian's depiction or on the veracity of the portrayal.
		The films and videotapes in the Library's collections are not available for loan but may be viewed at the Library by researchers by advance appointment.
		Co., 1909 1 reel, 429 ft., 35mm, ref. print FEA 9790 A trapper is shown with a small child and his friend, an Indian man. When the trapper dies in a fall, he leaves his child in the Indian's care.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/findaid/indian1.html (13137 words)

	FilmStew.com • Hollywood's Oldest Child Star
		This weekend also happens to be the 100th anniversary of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., a Chicago-based enterprise that came to Niles and was co-owned by fellow silent film star Broncho Billy Anderson, known for the one-reel westerns he made between 1912 and 1916.
		And movie PR was a little different back then, as Carey would travel for months around the country with her films, putting on a most unusual sales pitch.
		âAfter a film was shown on the screen, I would appear onstage and tell a couple of little jokes,â she explains.
	www.filmstew.com /showArticle.aspx?ContentID=16093 (560 words)

	Film History Before 1920
		In the early years of cinema, film producers were worried that the American public could not last through a film that was an hour long, thereby delaying the advent of feature films (60-90 minutes in length) in the US.
		As film production increased, cinema owner William Fox was one of the first (in 1904) to form a distribution company (a regional rental exchange), that bought shorts and then rented them to exhibitors at lower rates.
		Their main goal, to stifle up-and-coming independent film makers, was accomplished by raising admission prices, limiting censorship by cooperating with regulatory bodies, and preventing film stock from getting into the hands of non-members.
	www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro2.html (3304 words)

	Medical Drama Books 1900-1979 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		European rest cure, Edison Manufacturing Co. From Edison films catalog: On the gangplack of one of the large ocean liners leaving New York is shown an old gentleman kissing his wife and daughter good-bye before leaving on a tour abroad for a much needed rest from business cares and troubles.
		The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble, as he catches hold of the brush and with a great show of impatience he hurriedly coats his face with the foaming soap and makes a second attempt at removing his beard.
		This is a 50 foot film of an ordinary scene of every day life, and its mirth provoking merits have never been surpassed.
	www.medlina.com /medical_drama_books_1900-1979.htm (9592 words)

	Jewish cowboy \| www.bergonline.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Like many film auteurs then, Anderson was the total package, writing, producing, directing and even editing most of his films.
		As co-founder of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., he also played a key role in the budding career of Charlie Chaplin.
		The company dissolved in 1918, and much of the Essanay film stock was destroyed when the talkies came about.
	www.bergonline.co.uk /articles/634_jewish_cowboy.htm (736 words)

	canadian pioneers in early hollywood
		With the exception of the new Essanay Studios in Chicago, Illinois, the motion picture business in the United States was centered in and around New York City as a direct result of the location of Edison's laboratories in nearby West Orange, New Jersey.
		Florence Lawrence, the first Star in Hollywood history, who appeared in more than 270 films, committed suicide and for nearly fifty years was forgotten in an unmarked grave in a Hollywood cemetery for the famous.
		Tragic too, is the story of the decline of silent film star Marie Prevost who succumbed to severe alcoholism and malnutrition at the age of 38.
	www.fact-library.com /canadian_pioneers_in_early_hollywood.html (1064 words)

	Right! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		1911 - Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. came to San Rafael in April, 1911, and worked out of a railroad boxcar in the vicinity of today's Montecito Center.
		Owner/director G. Anderson often came to Fairfax with his crew to film the westerns in which he starred as "Broncho Billy".
		Essanay made over 40 one-reel movies while in Marin.
	www.marindirect.com /fxhistory/oxoxx.html (96 words)

	Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay : Dawn of the Tramp
		Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp is a film-by-film examination of this period in Chaplin’s career, tracing the birth of his beloved “Tramp” character and his evolution as an actor and filmmaker.
		Ted Okuda is the author of The Columbia Comedy Shorts and The Monogram Checklist, and co-author of The Jerry Lewis Films and The Golden Age of Chicago Children’s Television.
		Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp
	www.clown-ministry.com /index_1.php?/site/articles/charlie_chaplin_at_keystone_and_essanay_dawn_of_the_tramp (487 words)

	Amazon.com: Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company: Books: David Kiehn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His Essanay stories of the old west were filmed in the real west, and set the pattern for western movies as we know them today.
		His studio was based in Chicago, and he needed lots of sunshine to film short films for nickelodeons.
		This books is worth the price for the many, many beautiful and rare photos of Essanay films and photos of the studio in operation.
	www.amazon.com /Broncho-Billy-Essanay-Film-Company/dp/0972922652 (1358 words)

	Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company (David Kiehn)
		His studio was based in Chicago, and he needed lots of sunshine to film short films for nickelodeons.
		Essanay's management wanted to produce longer films in Chicago, not in California.
		This books is worth the price for the many, many beautiful and rare photos of Essanay films and photos of the studio in operation.
	www.ka-tet-corp.com /portal/webstore/us/product/0972922652.htm (620 words)

	BRONCHO BILLY AND THE ESSANAY FILM COMPANY
		Hollywood's trail head Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company David Kiehn Farwell Books: 448 pp., $32.50 By Richard Schickel, Richard Schickel is the author of several books, including "Woody Allen: A Life in Film," and reviews movies for Time.
		The success of that film ￢ﾀﾔ it was also the first blockbuster ￢ﾀﾔ imbued Anderson, as he started calling himself around that time, with one of the two large visions that marked his now almost forgotten life.
		He's too much the film geek, preoccupied with filmographies of movies we'll never see, biographies of the scarcely noted, long forgotten players who drifted through Anderson's orbit in his glory years.
	www.totalblowhole.com /new-3321201-4659.html (1303 words)

	1907: Hollywood by the Lake
		Out of offices at 62 N. Clark, Spoor was renting all the film he could get his hands on to vaudeville houses, traveling shows and that new storefront phenomenon, the nickelodeons.
		Essanay company churned out several 20-minute shorts a week, which each cost about $1,000 to produce but brought in $20,000.
		Chaplin, Essanay's biggest star, left the studio for a higher salary of $670,000 a year.
	www.suntimes.com /century/m1907.html (739 words)

	Silent Animated Films at the Library of Congress: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television Reading ...
		Both of those films are also part of the Paper Print Collection which is comprised of films that for copyright purposes in the early 1900's were sent to the library as stills on rolls of paper instead of on film.
		Some of the films are not yet viewable because they are archival copies, but viewing copies are being made as indicated by "ref. copy forthcoming" in the entry.
		Film titles were garnered from various automated and manual files at the Library of Congress.
	www.lcweb.loc.gov /rr/mopic/findaid/animate.html (6103 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| The Third Annual Niles Broncho Billy Film Festival
		With his partner, George Spoor, Anderson founded the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company (Spoor was the "S," and Anderson was the "A").
		Experts on silent film will discuss Broncho Billy, Chaplin and some of the early Essanay stars--one of them Texas Guinan, the cowgirl comedienne (Whoopi Goldberg's bartending Star Trek: The Next Generation character was named in her honor).
		On 35mm film, the 80-year-old afternoon light is still silvery and lambent through the shade of the eucalyptuses on the dirt road that is today car-clogged Highway 84.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.01.00/bronchobilly-0022.html (716 words)

	Jewish Fortune - Central Jewish Resource
		As co-founder of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., he also played a key role in the budding career of Charlie Chaplin.
		The company dissolved in 1918, and much of the Essanay film stock was destroyed when the talkies came about.
		Kiehn and others have formed the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, but they don’t have their museum just yet.
	english.sem40.ru /jewish_fortune/8414 (699 words)

	Jewish cowboy \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He played several uncredited roles — as a bandit, a wounded passenger and a tenderfoot dancer — in “The Great Train Robbery” (1903), a 12-minute movie often credited for putting the American movie business on its feet (it was released the same week the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk).
		Chaplin developed his Little Tramp character in Niles, in fact filming the original film, “The Little Tramp,” while under contract with Essanay.
		The last Broncho Billy film was made in 1919.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/634_jewish_cowboy.htm (736 words)

	Location Text and List of Documents - The Edison Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Most of the letters are by Frank L. Dyer and George F. Scull of the Edison Manufacturing Co. and George K. Spoor, president of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. of Chicago.
		The letters relate primarily to license agreements and to nonflammable film.
		Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been selected.
	edison.rutgers.edu /NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?gloc=CK917& (98 words)

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		He resolves not to smoke / Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. ; by Wallace Carlson.
		United States : Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., [1915].
		Summary from J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress, 1995.
	hdl.loc.gov /loc.mbrsmi/animp.4067 (217 words)

	BRONCHO BILLY AND THE ESSANAY FILM COMPANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		And, unlike other Bay Area towns like Los Gatos and San Rafael, where his film company had been frustrated by bad weather, Niles was far enough inland to be largely free of the fog, clouds and rain.
		The real film community thanks you and we are proud of you and what you have accomplished.
		Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company David Kiehn Farwell Books: 448 pp., $32.50 By Richard Schickel, Richard Schickel is the author of several books, including "Woody Allen: A Life in Film," and reviews movies for Time.
	www.totalblowhole.com /new-558040-4676.html (5144 words)

	Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the exception of the new Essanay Studios in Chicago, Illinois, the motion picture business in the U.S.A. was centered in and around New York City as a direct result of the location of Edison's laboratories in nearby West Orange, New Jersey.
		As a result, most of these Canadian pioneers began their careers in New York.
		Charles Christie, (1880-1955) - co-founder of Christie Film Company, built Hollywood's 1st luxury hotel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_pioneers_in_early_Hollywood (1063 words)

	Books in Review - March 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The city was also home to such pioneer studios as Essanay (pronounced "S and A," representing founders George K. Spoor and Max Aronson), which still stands on West Argyle Street with its name emblazoned above the doorway, as well as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Co., the American Film Manufacturing Co. and several others.
		An impressive number of West Coast movie companies capitalized on Chicago as a practical location — little wonder, given that the midwestern metropolis is one of the world's most distinctive and photogenic cities.
		Though bigger and more sensational books on the subject have come to pass, Carringer's opus is the best of the lot for those who prefer information to gossip, facts to opinion and details to speculation.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/mar99/books/index.htm (878 words)

	Essanay Studios - TheBestLinks.com - Charlie Chaplin, Chicago, Illinois, MPPC, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	Chaplin's Essanay comedies. Volume 3 [videorecording] / written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. ...
		Shanghaied: Hired to shanghai a crew, Chaplin is himself shanghaied and becomes assistant cook aboard a rolling boat.
		Triple trouble: Charlie works in the home of an eccentric inventor from whom some German spies are attempting to obtain a formula.
		Videodisc release of five short films originally produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. between 1915 and 1918.
	voyager.uvm.edu /bibs/bid1248483.html (301 words)

	Chaplin's Essanay comedies. Volume 1 [videorecording] / written and directed by Charles Chaplin ; produced by Jesse T. ...
		His new job: Charlie applies for a job as an actor at a film studio.
		A night out: Charlie and Turpin are drunks about town, starting at a cafe and ending in a risque hotel room mix-up with a pretty girl.
		Videodisc release of five short films originally produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. in 1915.
	voyager.uvm.edu /bibs/bid1248486.html (281 words)

	Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Vol. 2 DVD. Cover image, synopsis, price, release date and more.
		In December 1914, Charlie Chaplin began his one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, shooting films in both their Chicago and California Studios.
		In that one year he made fifteen films, earned an unprecedented salary and established himself as a firm box-office favourite.
		Previously, Chaplin's Essanay films have only been available in poor or incomplete prints.
	www.vistadvd.co.uk /dvddet.asp?dvdcode=BFIVD559 (239 words)

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