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	Siegmund Lubin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By 1910 his company had constructed "Lubinville," one of the largest and most modern film studios in the world.
		Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company had secondary studios around the United States and became a major force in the domestic and international film industry.
		Not being as adroit as its competitors in shifting to quality feature-length films plus a disastrous fire at its main studio in June of 1914 that destroyed the negatives for a number of unreleased new films, severely hurt the business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siegmund_Lubin (420 words)

	KCET Online - About - Station History
		Lubin spent much of his career in the film industry battling copyright infringement lawsuits from Edison.
		Lubin sold this Hollywood property on Fleming Street in 1913, to the Essanay Film Company.
		The beginning of the end for the Lubin empire came in 1914, when a massive film vault explosion destroyed the master film negatives for all of Lubin's films.
	www.kcet.org /about/station-history/index.php (1112 words)

	Lubin Film Company article
		Lubin's films before the turn of the century were no different than those being turned out by other film companies of the day.
		The beginning of the end for the Lubin Film Company came on June 13, 1914, when a massive film vault explosion destroyed the master film negatives for all of Lubin's films.
		Lubin spent the last years of his life tinkering with radios and ended up back in his original optical shop in Philadelphia also dabbling in optical and photographic work.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /articles/lubinfilmarticle.html (1392 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		When the Universal Film Manufacturing Company requested use of the Indian Village in June 1921 it was advised that notice of its intent to shoot must be made in advance to the park office.
		The board notified the company that half of the rental would be redirected to the Boy Scouts who had been given permission to occupy the Indian Village after the exposition and use the Painted Desert as their headquarters.
		The company spent ten days in Balboa Park and filmed along the Plaza de Panama between 9:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. While the cameras were actually rolling the traffic through the park was halted, but not for more than one hour at a time (the permit exempted park department vehicles from this restriction).
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/92winter/hollywood.htm (5336 words)

	Film History Before 1920
		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.
		To limit competition from other independent companies and to protect and increase profits, it bought and pooled major patents (on movie machines such as cameras and projectors), and charged anyone (by issuing licenses) who wanted to use their equipment or hire their films.
		By 1912, 15 film companies were operating in Hollywood, and large studios were becoming the norm.
	www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro2.html (3304 words)

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		As she talked of films in general, and her own in particular, her former self-repression gave way to an enthusiasm that brought animation to a face that was still more beautiful now that something of the mask of sensitive shyness had gone.
		The Galatea of the films again became a statuesque figure as she rose, her slim form suggesting stately height with the light of the window throwing it into sharp relief against the mauves and purple of the decorations.
		The film was an advertisement of a certain kind of sugar and that was all; but little May, who was only fifteen years old, put her heart and soul in that role.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bruce/Taylor93.txt (9903 words)

	Film II: Film Matters
		Fielding, who was voted the most popular film performer in 1911 by Moving Picture World, made and starred in over twenty films in the area, including the little-known masterpiece The Rattlesnake.
		Not only is this film of superior formal quality, but moreover, its thrilling narrative and dynamic compositional strategies formulate a regional identity that accords with the intersection of local and national discourses which led to the area’s incorporation as a state after sixty years as a territory.
		In short, the film’s structure offers the impossible: a glimpse of post-apocalypse filmmaking, of filmmaking that does not emerge from capitalism and is not shaped by it.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mmla/abstracts2004/film2.htm (853 words)

	© Laurel and Hardy - Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy - Film Comedians - goldensilents.com
		Laurel and Hardy began to be re-appreciated in the 1950's with the advent of television.
		Their old films were played quite often; many had entered the public domain and the television stations did not have to pay royalty fees to broadcast them.
		Their film work fell temporarily out of favor with their public during the war years, but at the advent of television their popularity was renewed due to their old films being broadcast repeatedly on the new medium.
	www.goldensilents.com /comedy/laurelhardy.html (975 words)

	1903 Lubin Film Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Sigmund Lubin was an optician in Philadelphia who went into the movie business in the late 1890s.
		Many of Lubin's films were "dupes" of the movies Edison and Porter were making.
		As the two stills at left indicate, Lubin's film also used the sets and costumes from a "Tom Show" dramatization of the novel.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /uncletom/onstage/films/lubinhp.html (198 words)

	Guide to Motion Picture Catalogs - The Edison Papers
		As the Vitascope Company enjoyed its initial success, C. Francis Jenkins, Armat's former partner, sought to protect his commercial interest in the phantascope and to establish his claim to being the projector's sole inventor.
		Most of the company's films were "dupes" or duplicate prints that were made from Edison's uncopyrighted films.
		While the first film companies both produced films and provided exhibition services, by early 1897 many firms were concentrating in one area or the other, The Lumière agency withdrew its American exhibition service because of customs difficulties but continued to make films in France into the early 1900s.
	edison.rutgers.edu /mopix/competn.htm (1351 words)

	Timeline of Influential Milestones and Turning Points in Film History
		Herein is a detailed timeline of the key film milestones, important turning points, and significant historical dates or events (organized by decade) that have had a significant influence on the world body of cinema and shaped its development.
		The latter, a 12-minute dramatic film, was the first to use modern film techniques, such as multiple camera positions, filming out of sequence and later editing the scenes into their proper order.
		The typical film was only a single reel long, or ten- to twelve minutes in length, and the performers were anonymous.
	www.filmsite.org /milestones1900s.html (912 words)

	Guide to Motion Picture Catalogs - The Edison Papers
		While Edison was suing many of these companies for patent infringement, as a film producer he shared many of their problems.
		These films were then distributed to theaters at a price determined by the amount of time a subject had been on the market—the newer the film, the more costly the rental.
		One such company was the Centaur Film Company, run by David Horsley in Bayonne, New Jersey.
	edison.rutgers.edu /mopix/mppats.htm (924 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.
		By mid-1908, motion pictures were emerging as a form of mass entertainment and at that time there were seven major motion picture companies producing silent movies, each usually twenty minutes in length.
		At the same time, because there was no sound in movies, several French movie makers had their motion pictures distributed in America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_pioneers_in_early_Hollywood (1063 words)

	Gaston Leroux - Free Online Library
		In the classic film version from 1925, Lon Chaney was the victim of torture with a crazed mind.
		The film was banned in Britain for four years as a result of a misfired publicity stunt.
		The first film of Chéri Bibi was made in 1913, directed by Gérard Bourgeois and starred René Navarre.
	leroux.thefreelibrary.com (1005 words)

	Silent Film Sources Monthly News
		Lubin was first sued by Edison in 1898, and a total of six lawsuits over nine years cost Lubin all of the profits he had accumulated from the film business.
		Lubin faced a huge increase in production costs while his income from the trust dried up, and his efforts to increase the efficiency of his operations were too late.
		None of the films in the series are recognized classics of the medium, yet these titles demonstrate that in the pre-1920 period a wider range of filmmakers were able to address a wider range of subjects than was possible later.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/98_2_mon.htm (11709 words)

	Laurel and Hardy, bio
		In 1913, he joined the Lubin film company, where he generally played the comic villain.
		Up to 1926, by which time he was with the Roach company, he had never been offered anything other than second-string character parts.
		The feature film 'Sons of the Desert' was probably one of their best, both technically and as a full-length comedy.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4337/slohbio.htm (608 words)

	Classic Images: Pearl White
		According to film historian Wallace Davies, Pearl was actually descended from early Massachusetts colonialists, and her mother died when Pearl was three (sadly, Davies does not list his source for that information).
		She was only there for a few films before jumping ship for the Crystal Film Company, back in Manhattan, late in 1912.
		Unfortunately, many of her early films have not been recorded in publications at the time they were produced.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/july97/white.html (4056 words)

	Details - Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History
		The Thanhouser Company, including its successor, Mutual's Thanhouser Film Corporation, was an extraordinarily active and energetic film company which thrived from 1909 through 1917 in New Rochelle, New York.
		Early Thanhouser films were one reel in length (twelve to fourteen minutes as dictated by the Patents group marketers) and, because of Edwin Thanhouser's theatrical background, based mostly upon a library of plays which were adapted to the silent screen.
		To say that the story of Thanhouser films is the story of the motion picture industry would not be true, for the story of the industry is composed of many companies, and Thanhouser was distinct from Lubin, Kalem, Edison, or Universal.
	www.thanhouser.org /cdromdetails.htm (1233 words)

	Pearl White photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		She was fired from Lubin, then went to Pathé for a short time followed by the Crystal Film Company in New York.
		She left for Europe after this and starred in one French-made film, "Terror" (released in the U.S. as ""The Perils of Paris") in 1924.
		Although this ended her film career, she did continue acting on the stage in France and England.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /photos/pearlwhitephoto.html (408 words)

	Hollywood Studio Tour / Photographs and History of the Hollywood Studios
		When Lubin's film company folded in 1917, the studio went through a succession of owners.
		Built by film pioneers Stuart Blackton and Albert Smith, Vitagraph was one of the largest early studios in Hollywood, employing such stars as Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Adolphe Menjou and Rudolph Valentino.
		The Jim Henson Company purchased the historic studio in April, 2000, resettling the Muppets and all operations from the Raleigh Studios.
	www.gmrnet.com /studio.html (3006 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Then on college campuses and at film festivals the films of the Marx Brothers were discovered by new generations.
		Later that same year the Karno Company traveled to the United States for a six-week tour on the Percy William circut and thye were a hit.
		At Lubin he played all kinds of roles many of them comic villians and loathsome "heavies." After two years with Lubin he moved to Vim Studios, still in Flordia, starring in single-reel films.
	members.aol.com /wmtienken/issue176.html (3886 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Oliver Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Traveling to Jacksonville, Florida in 1913, he secured work at the Lubin Film Company, where thanks to his 250-pound frame he was often cast as a comic villain.
		With the rest of the Roach stock company, Hardy appeared in the Comedy All-Stars series, where he was frequently directed by fellow Roach contractee Stan Laurel (with whom Hardy had briefly appeared on-screen in the independently produced 1918 two-reeler Lucky Dog).
		The resultant eight films, produced between 1941 and 1945, suffered from too much studio interference and too little creative input from Laurel and Hardy, and as such are but pale shadows of their best work at Roach.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/26821/bio.jhtml (990 words)

	Philipsburg, PA: Historic Downtown Philipsburg: Philipsburg Firsts
		The mill was destroyed by fire in the winter of 1859.
		Philipsburg on the "Alley Popper" train line by the Lubin Film Company on December 8, 1914.
		One of the first motion pictures to use the scene was the "Valley of Lost Hope" but the wreck scene appeared in many movies.
	www.philipsburgpa.org /history/firsts.shtml (456 words)

	Biography for Oliver Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1913 he became a comedy actor with the Lubin Company in Florida and began appearing in a long series of shorts; his debut film was "Outwitting Dad" (1913).
		With Stan Laurel, they often had a scene in their films where they would get into a fight with another person that consisted solely of destroying property.The duo would destroy something the opponent values while the opponent looks on and does not resist.
		Laurel and Hardy's films had and still have great success in Italy where they are known as "Stallio and Ollio".
	us.imdb.com /name/nm0001316/bio (1771 words)

	timeline
		Films hurricane damage in Galveston and Republican national convention in Philadelphia.
		Lubin honored as film pioneer at San Diego Exposition.
		Lubin on the board, but not in command.
	faculty.mc3.edu /jeckhard/timeline.htm (439 words)

	Laurel and Hardy - Newsletter May 1997
		Several tour companies travel to these places by bus, but it will probably be more convenient and less expensive see things like a native of Southern California...by renting a car for the remainder of the week.
		Her first film was for the Lubin Film Company and was titled, The City of Failing Light.
		This film was shot in Moapa Valley, Nevada, the same location that Laurel and Hardy would use in Flying Elephants.
	www.wayoutwest.org /archive/30-3.html (3111 words)

	History, New Mexico lodging The Historic Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, NM.
		Soon, however, the silent film era of the early 20th century brought another wave of prosperity to Las Vegas and the Plaza Hotel.
		In 1913, the popular film director/actor, Romaine Fielding leased the entire Plaza Hotel for use as his Lubin Film Company filming and studio headquarters.
		Since 1882, local residents, tourists, architects, historians and film makers have continued to be fascinated by the glimpse of Old West elegance this stately structure affords.
	www.plazahotel-nm.com /history.htm (683 words)

	Fort Lee Film Commission \| Fort Lee, NJ
		The Victor Film Company, founded in 1912 by the screen’s first popular actress, Florence Lawrence, and her husband, Harry Salter, was one of the first companies formed to feature the work of a single star.
		In 1910, she was hired by Carl Laemmle’s IMP Company and he publicized her name, featuring her in a number of films.
		After a brief stint with the Lubin Co., she retired to her home in Westwood, NJ, but stayed only a few months before the new company was born.
	www.fortleefilm.org /studios.html (2791 words)

	Hite, Charles J.
		He's all tangled up with the film business by now…." The story of the check in lieu of a prescription was repeatedly denied by Hite, but it became a part of film folklore and was repeated in many biographical accounts concerning him.
		Hite and his partners acquired the Thanhouser Company from Edwin Thanhouser for $250,000 on April 15, 1912, in a transaction arranged by Harry E. Aitken and other principals of the Mutual Film Corporation.
		Charles J. Hite was named as president of the company, which was recapitalized and renamed the Thanhouser Corporation.
	www.thanhouser.org /people/hitec.htm (1708 words)

	Sharlot Hall Museum: Archives : Movies Made in Yavapai County
		In July of 1912 actor, director, writer Romaine Fielding arrived in Prescott with cast and crew to open a Lubin Film Company studio at the invitation of the local chamber of commerce.
		Another two unknown titles were also filmed at this time.
		Filming in Prescott and the rest of Yavapai County continues to this day.
	www.sharlot.org /archives/history/movies.html (316 words)

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