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  Lubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But at the height of his career in 1912, he was world famous and one of the most colorful and popular men in the American film industry.
Beginning in 1897, he became the first to attempt the mass-marketing of the movies, the first to build a chain of movie theaters, the first to build an empire of studios, and the first to use film to combat anti-Semitism.
A complex man full of contradictions, he was by turns a pirate, a prophet, a con-man, a philanthropist, and a successful capitalist widely known as a "friend of labor." A loyal friend of Thomas Edison, he also worked behind Edison's back to help young Jews trying to break into the movies.
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  Movie studio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 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.
At the Jacksonville, Fla., studio in 1913, a young bystander named Oliver Hardy was given his first chance at acting and continued honing his craft with the Lubin company for the next two years.
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.
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 Florence Lawrence: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Florence Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By late 1910, Lawrence left IMP to work for Lubin Studios[?], advising her fellow young Canadian, the 16-year-old Mary Pickford, to take her place as IMP's star.
In 1915, she was badly burned in a studio fire after an attempt to rescue someone from the flames.
In 1908, she had married Harry Solter, the director of her first film at IMP Studios, but he died in 1920.
www.encyclopedian.com /fl/Florence-Lawrence.html   (927 words)

  
 Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
Siegmund Lubin, with his Lubin Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, was one of Edison's earliest rivals in the motion picture business and remained a vigorous force in filmmaking, equipment manufacture and exhibition until the beginning of the First World War.
Lubin films were characteristically sensational in content: a film of the Thaw-White scandal, The Unwritten Law, was made in 1907 while the gripping murder trial was still in progress.
Lubin bought a 1000 seat movie house in Philadelphia in late 1906; by 1908 he was operating a chain of nearly 100 theatres on the East Coast, the nucleus of the later Stanley-Warner circuit.
www.victorian-cinema.net /lubin.htm   (674 words)

  
 Hollywood Studio Tour / Photographs and History of the Hollywood Studios
The studio was known as the Colorvision TV Studios in 1970 when it was purchased by the present owner/occupant, KCET, a PBS affiliated station.
This studio was constructed in 1928 by William Fox, and was an innovator in both sound and the wide-screen process.
The studio was built during the 1920's by William H. "Billy" Clune and called the Clune Studios.
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 Motion Picture Studios of California - Page 2
In early spring ground is to be broken for a glassed-in studio, 150 by 200 feet, the largest in the industry.
Here an enormous glass studio, an inclosed studio and six open air stages have been built, while a large area of ground at the rear is used for "sets." A four-acre tract near Silver Lake and six acres in the San Fernando Valley for exterior locations have also been taken over.
The studio, lands, buildings, etc., were purchased outright in October last year and the stage capacity has been nearly doubled since that time, as well as an up-to-date laboratory being installed.
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 ABC News: An Invisible Technology May Slow Piracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The technology was developed by Sarnoff scientists, including Jeffrey Lubin, who used his background in perceptual psychology vision to devise a watermark that not only would be invisible to the movie viewer, but would survive even if the movie quality was degraded because of crude copying.
None of the studios have agreed to start using the technology yet, but if the tests go well, the code could be used on a film as soon as early 2005, he said.
But if the reproduction is pristine, the trail might lead to a DVD given out by the studios, which have had to adjust how it distributes copies of film in production or of those it wants considered for awards.
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 Florence Lawrence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lawrence quickly gained much popularity but because her name was never publicized, fans began writing the studio asking for her name.
However, her fame was such that the studio executives who had concerns over wage demands soon had their fears proved correct.
They established a film studio in (additional info and facts about Fort Lee, New Jersey) Fort Lee, New Jersey and made a number of films starring Lawrence and (additional info and facts about Owen Moore) Owen Moore before selling out to the new Univeral Pictures in 1913.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fl/Florence_Lawrence.htm   (1196 words)

  
 Main Line Times - News - 05/04/2004 - Remembering Betzwood Studio -- Hollywood on the Schuylkill
A German immigrant, Lubin began as an optician, and through his interest in lenses, gradually began tinkering with the new toy of the day, motion pictures.
Lubin's main studio at 20th and Indiana in North Philadelphia had no back lot for outdoor filming, so he bought the two contiguous farms that made up the Betzwood lot.
Lubin spent the remaining seven years of his life in retirement in Ventnor, N.J. True to form, at the time of his death, he was tinkering with the next wave of the future: radio.
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 Los Angeles Business Journal: Investors eye deep South studio, tour attraction - motion picture studio planned for ...
And the overall growth in the industry indicates that more studios will continue to be built around the country, but these new studios will have little effect on the workers in his guild, he said.
Furthermore, the studios built in low profile areas usually serve as sites for commercials and educational films, and the effect on the major Hollywood studios is minor, St. John said.
Several major production studios that were originally located in other parts of the country set up shop in Tinseltown but eventually returned to their home city, according to Marc Wanamaker, a professional film historian.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n34_v12/ai_9105504   (598 words)

  
 KCET Online - About - Station History
Siegmund "Pop" Lubin, a Philadelphia-based manufacturer of cameras, projectors, and printing machines, had produced his first film in 1897 and established a west coast base on this property in January 1912.
At its peak Lubin owned a chain of motion picture theatres along the East Coast, manufactured and sold motion picture cameras and projectors, employed more than 2,000 actors, writers, directors and technicians and was turning out more than a film a day.
Lubin was forced to close down in 1917.
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 Slide Area: Film Book Notes 4/99
What is known is that Lubin was a Polish Jew, who came to America, made a pair of eyeglasses for former President Ulysses S. Grant at the Louisville Exposition in 1883, operated a thriving optical business in Philadelphia in the 1890s, and shot his first film, Horse Eating Hay, in 1896.
Lubin later produced in California and also built a major studio complex at Betzwood, the palatial estate of brewer John F. Betz, in 1912.
Lubin's film empire collapsed in the late teens, he retired in 1916 and died in 1923.
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 Valhalla Memorial Park
In many of his later films at Lubin he was billed as "Babe Hardy." Hardy was a big man at six feet one inch tall and weighed up to 300 pounds.
Roach Studios' supervising director Leo McCarey had realized the audience reaction to the two, and had begun intentionally teaming them together, leading to the start of the Laurel and Hardy series late that year.
Although they were financially better off, they had very little artistic control at the large studios, and hence the films lack the very qualities that had made Laurel and Hardy worldwide names.
www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /MemorialParks/valhallamemorialpark.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Cinema history of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Studios, set this poverty-row dud in contemporary New York, firstly to avoid lawsuits from Paramount, and secondly to save on the expense of period costumes.
They rented space at the Universal Studio lot on the understanding that they could use any of the standing sets, therefore this two-reeler was filmed on the exterior sets of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).
The studio had initially earmarked Robert Donat in the dual role, but settled on Spencer Tracy even though some felt he was unsuitable.
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 Laurel & Hardy | Busy Bodies Tent Of Stourbridge Oasis:128
Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios "Comedy All Star" players, was injured in a kitchen mishap (he burned himself on a leg of lamb) and Stan was asked to return to the front of tha cameras.
When Lubin was sold he made a few films for Pathe, Casino and Edison in the New York area but returned to Jacksonville to work for Vim and King Bee, where he supported Billy West, a Chaplin imitator.
Babe went to Vitagraph Studios, where he was teamed as the "heavy" for Larry Semon, another Chaplin imitator.
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 Ad Slick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The studio was located on farmland owned by dentist and rancher Dr. David Burbank, after whom the city of Burbank was named.
He called his studio Universal City, and made it a policy to invite visitors to visit the facilities and observe the behind-the-scenes magic of movie-making Universal Studios is best known for its 1930's horror genre.
This chapter merely focuses on a few studios whose contributions to the growth and evolution of the movie industry are significant.
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 Pearl White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1910, Pearl White was offered a chance by Pathé Freres to perform in The Girl From Arizona, the French company's first American film produced at their new studio in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
She then worked at Lubin Studios and several other of the independents until the Crystal Film Company in Manhattan, gave her top billing in numerous short films.
All her films were made at East Coast studios and it is believed White never visited Hollywood who would honor her contribution to the film industry with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pearl_white   (896 words)

  
 History and Clients
Moved the studio into the golden state building on Harrison street in 1995.
I began collecting, buying and selling recording equipment in 1972,after being exposed to the studio thanks to Tom Lubin, then a CBS engineer, and now a well known educator.
Arguably the rarest tube mic in the world, the Telefunken Elam 270 stereo microphone(serial number 101) now in the collection of Telefunken North America was purchased by me in Vienna, from one of the"Austrian sound hunters", an amateur recording club, for the princely sum of 1100.
www.danalexanderaudio.com /clients.html   (660 words)

  
 Pearl White -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
She then worked at Lubin Studios and several other of the (A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)) independents until the Crystal Film Company in (One of the five boroughs of New York City) Manhattan, gave her top billing in numerous short films.
The film was not about a helpless woman, but one where "Pauline" was the central character in a story involving considerable action for which the athletic and unblinking Peal White proved ideally suited.
All her films were made at East Coast studios and it is believed White never visited (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood who would honor her contribution to the film industry with a star on the (additional info and facts about Hollywood Walk of Fame) Hollywood Walk of Fame.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Pearl_White.htm   (921 words)

  
 Fort Lee Film Commission  |  Fort Lee, NJ
Its studio was built in a remote area in Coytesville, north of Fort Lee.
When the Blaches were not using their studio, they would lease it to other production companies, and the facilities continued to be used under the Solax name even when they were leased to companies such as Goldwyn.
In 1917, the studios were leased to Goldwyn, with Universal announcing that it would use the old Champion studios in Coytesville.
www.fortleefilm.org /studios.html   (2791 words)

  
 Celestial Voices
Most of the tracks on Aurora were recorded at his studio in London.
But I'll leave the last word on Cantamus to the composer and conductor Carl Davis, who said working with the choir was "one of the high points" of his concert career.
Mixed at Abbey Road Studios in London by Peter Cobbin and featuring members of the Seattle Symphony and many other talented musicians, this collection weaves a delicate story of the mysteries of love.
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 The Times Herald - News - 07/31/2003 - County backs $3M loan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Only if the developer, an O'Neill development subsidiary entitled Lubin Studio Associates, goes belly-up financially would the county be required to use future community development funds to pay back the loan.
The loan funds are earmarked for site preparation and the renovation and conversion of the historic Lubin Film Studios into 56,000 square feet of office space on a 2.2-acre parcel of the tract.
The total cost of this part of the project is $13.2 million, which will include the $3 million federal loan, a $2 million federal brownfield grant, a $5.7 million bank loan and $2.5 million in cash.
www.timesherald.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=9934798&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6   (599 words)

  
 Jacksonville's Silent Movie Industry
The Kalem Studio, looking for a place to film away from the wintry blasts of New York, was the first to arrive about 1908, and by 1914 had built the world's largest outdoor stage and a glass-roofed studio with a $20,000 lighting system.
The studio's, "A Florida Feud," made in 1909 in Jacksonville was the first film shot in Florida.
The actress/script writer/ producer/critic, Gene Gauntier, who worked for Kalem Studios, has left wonderful descriptions of early filmmaking in Jacksonville in her autobiography, "Blazing the Trail: The Autobiography of Gene Gauntier." Seven of the chapters are online as they appeared in serialized versions in 1928-1929, Woman's Home Companion.
www.jacksonvilleandneflorida.com /silentmovies.html   (528 words)

  
 On the Inside at Lubinville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He smiled genially upon the crowd, summoning a man whom he sought and stepping to one side to give a glimpse of Siegmund Lubin, who was showing some visitors through the wonderful plant, and expatiating upon the mechanical marvels of the place.
A bald man of shrewd eyes and a wide brow, "Pop" Lubin only when he isn't around, the man in the doorway was one of the tremendous figures in the newest and most rapidly growing of the great industries of the world.
Down the stairway rushed the actors through the courtyard and into other doorways and up other stairways, going to their dressing rooms and studios prepared for the rush of work that is so characteristic of the Lubin studios.
www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/5_lubin3.htm   (1529 words)

  
 The Times Herald - News - 04/19/2005 - Leading men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1912, Sigmund Lubin purchased the 500-acre property that was home to his Lubin Film Co. studios until 1923.
Five of the Lubin studio's stone buildings were preserved and restored by O'Neill.
The former studio buildings offer a loft-style industrial design with vaulted ceilings, oversized beams and exposed masonry.
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 Jack Norris - Social Security Not Get-Rich-Quick Idea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Renner also told of the afternoon in Betzwood when the Anthracite Express was delayed five minutes because of a "stampede" at the old Lubin Film Studios which were situated along the right-of-way.
It was a hot afternoon in June, 1908, and the heat must have adversely affected about eight horses and "cowboys." Instead of following through on the stampede, the animals insisted on remaining on the tracks.
A signal to stop the train was given the engineer about a mile up the track from the studio.
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