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	William Selig - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Selig began tinkering with a Lumière brothers camera to make his own version of a film projection system and in 1896, he founded the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago, one of the first motion picture studios in America.
		Selig was the first to expand to the west coast, setting up studio facilities in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles for director Francis Boggs.
		Selig came west not just for Southern California's weather, which permitted outdoor filming year round, and geography, which could be used to stand in for the Sahara desert, the Alps, or New York City, but also for its distance from Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), a cartel of which Selig was a reluctant member.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/William_Selig (597 words)

	William Selig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Selig Studios developed new talent such as Fatty Arbuckle who began his career with the company in 1908.
		Selig was the first to expand to the West coast, setting up facilities in Los Angeles for director, Francis Boggs.
		For his contribution to the motion picture industry, William Selig has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6116 Hollywood Blvd. In 1947, Selig, along with several of his pioneering compatriots, was given a special Academy Award to acknowledge his important role in building the film industry.
	william-selig.area51.ipupdater.com (291 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Selig was an early American film pioneer who founded the Selig Polyscope Company (originally called the Mutuscope and Film Company), on April 9, 1896, in Chicago.
		With The Count of Monte Cristo (1908), Selig Polyscope claimed to be the first to shoot a narrative film in Los Angeles, and in 1909 established a permanent studio in the Los Angeles area.
		A large amount of material concerns the releases of the Selig Polyscope Company, both in the United States and in England, as well as story and title records that relate to the films released by the company.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/selig_162.html (751 words)

	Alchemy of Bones: Luetgert Judge Rules Bacon Wrote Shakespeare's Plays
		Selig "was shocked to learn that Fabyan was about to attack the fair name of Shakespeare and thereby injure his motion picture rights, and it was through this thoroughly modern difference between two colonels that Bacon is finally awarded his decree," the Tribune reported.
		Selig's star witness in the case was the Right Reverend Samuel Fellows, Chicago's Episcopal bishop, while Fabyan responded with several literary scholars who subscribed to the Bacon theory.
		Selig was one of four men who received Special Academy Awards in 1947 for being pioneers in the development of motion pictures.
	www.alchemyofbones.com /stories/shakespeare.htm (1258 words)

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		When the originally planned press stunt was brought to a sudden end by the accident, the amount of space that the Selig company secured in the daily papers throughout the country, more than made up for the experience that the players underwent.
		At her arrival at the Edendale studio of the Selig house, she was given an impromptu reception at which she was heartily welcomed back after her two years' affiliation with the Chicago studio.
		It was while she was in Florida doing a drama for the Selig company that Miss Williams received the urge for animal work.
	www.silent-movies.org /Taylorology/Taylor48.txt (12251 words)

	Selig Zoo and Movie Studio. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Selig, William (1864-1948), U.S. motion picture pioneer, born in Chicago, Ill.; actor, theatrical manager 1888-99; improved early motion picture camera; produced first long historical motion picture (Coming of Columbus').
		Selig was the first producer to build a studio in Hollywood, California.
		Selig was one of the first producers to make feature length films and also created the first American serial film, The Adventures of Kathlyn.
	www.lincolnheightsla.com /selig (612 words)

	Film
		Spoor, a moving picture exhibitor, and Anderson, a film actor, founded the company in 1907 and built a studio in Uptown on Argyle Street in 1908.
		The films produced in Chicago and/or distributed by Chicago companies were increasingly important nationally and internationally as U.S. firms tried to compete with imported films for domination of film screens.
		Several “race film” companies (companies run largely by African Americans who made films for a fl audience) were formed during the silent film era in Chicago as well.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/452.html (1023 words)

	Selig studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1908, Selig filmed The Count of Monte Cristo, thought to be the first narrative film shot in Los Angeles, and in 1909, he established the first permanent Los Angeles motion picture studio, on Allesandro Street in Edendale.
		Though Selig started his Polyscope Film Co in Chicago, his associate Francis Boggs set up operations in Edendale in 1909, and the whole company would follow a few years later.
		As Colonel Selig had acquired a sizable collection of wild animals to feature in his films, part of the new site was set up as a zoo, which eventually took on its own importance as a tourist attraction.
	home.earthlink.net /%7Edeadreckoner/Edendale/selig.htm (501 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Initially, the company specialized in slapstick comedies and travel films, though Selig also produced industrial films, most notably for Armour and Company.
		Brought to court by Thomas Edison for patent infringement in 1905, Selig was provided free legal representation by Philip Armour in return for the prints made in 1901.
		The Selig Polyscope Company stopped making films in 1918, but Colonel Selig continued producing into the 1930s; The Drag-Net (1936) and Convicts at Large (1938) were the last films credited to him.
	www.ampas.org /mhl/sc/selig_162.html (751 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of Hollywood movie studios
		The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) NYSE: DIS is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world.
		The Jim Henson Company is a company founded in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets.
		See: Movie studio A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Hollywood-movie-studios (1676 words)

	Selig All Infopleasealmanacs General Entertainment Sportsbiographiesdictionaryencyclopedia. Editor's F
		Selig heard whispers, if not outright accusations, that he was a walking, talking conflict of interest as But his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, was running the Brewers and he.
		Operation of the Milwaukee Brewers, Bud Selig was perceived to have a conflict of and because his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, ran the club until September 2002, Selig was unable.
		WILLIAM N. The founder of the Selig Polyscope Company was born William Nicholas Selig on March 14, 1864, in Chicago, Illinois.
	www.99hosted.com /names20214.html (480 words)

	Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
		The longevity, prominence, and varied activity of the Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago is a vivid example of the geographical diversity of film activity in the United States in the first decade of motion pictures, when production companies, manufacturers, and exhibition services were widely dispersed along the Eastern seaboard and throughout the Midwest.
		A mechanic to whom Selig turned for help had unknowingly made a duplicate Cinématographe for a travelling Lumière operator, and Selig's camera and Polyscope projector were based on the drawings of the Lumière machine.
		Selig maintained studios in Chicago and the Edendale district of Los Angeles, and produced many animal pictures, with the Selig Jungle Zoo near Eastlake Park becoming the largest collection of wild animals in the world with over 700 residents.
	www.victorian-cinema.net /selig.htm (416 words)

	Film History Before 1920
		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.
		The company became well known for animal and jungle pictures, having at hand the resources of the zoo - the largest privately owned zoo in the country at the time.
		Selig Polyscope made the first true serial, The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913-1914), but closed down its operations in 1918 when it went bankrupt, and the Selig facilities then became Louis B. Mayer Pictures.
	www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro2.html (3304 words)

	Columbia - The Life of a World's Fair Baby - Page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Less than three months after leaving Seattle, Columbia, her mother, John C. Smith, and eight others from the Eskimo Village were with a Selig Polyscope Company film crew in Truckee, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
		Today one of the lady members of the company, dressed in Alaskan costume on snowshoes, was pursued through the woods by a pack of dogs representing wolves.
		He became the company's scenario editor in 1912, and continued his career as a respected character actor after the studio closed in 1918, appearing in more than 140 films before he died in 1940.
	www.boondocksnet.com /expos/wfe_columbia_fair_baby_f.html (2637 words)

	Sarah Weiss' research paper about Oscar Micheaux
		Selig also realized that the money was not in selling the projectors but in selling the tickets to theatres.
		In addition to Selig Polyscope and Essanay Film Manufacturing, there were numerous other small production companies.
		His dream was to found a company of fl players that everyone, fl or white, could enjoy.
	shorock.com /arts/micheaux/sarah.html (4883 words)

	Continued Legal Battles
		In 1902 it published a catalog listing many of the films that the company had made during the previous six years as well as the subjects that were made by its sister companies in Europe.
		Selig not only sold its films more openly but also placed its polyscope projector on the market.
		Selig catalogs from the immediate post–March 1903 period suggest that this company was becoming a significant factor in the American motion picture industry.
	edison.rutgers.edu /mopix/legal.htm (1154 words)

	Hollywood, Colorado article
		Another Selig troupe arrived in 1911 with future cowboy star Tom Mix as a leading man. Emrich gives an absorbing account of this period seasoned with film synopses from Selig publicity, anecdotal accounts of daily movie-making from local newspapers and reminisces of life after hours for Mix and his fellow actors.
		Alas, Mix was to move on to bigger and better things, and the Selig company soon left Colorado for the promise of 300 days of sunshine and a wider variety of scenery in California.
		The most tragic event in the company's brief history, which is recounted by Emrich, involved the drowning deaths of star Grace McHugh and cameraman Owen Carter during a river-crossing scene in "Across the Border" (1914).
	www.silentsaregolden.com /hollywoodcolarticle.html (1110 words)

	Chronomedia: 1913
		Box Office Attraction Company is formed in New York by William Fox—the basis for Fox Film Company.
		London Film Company is formed by exhibitor Dr Ralph Jupp, based at Twickenham Studios in a former skating rink.
		For 544 public companies in the sector, average capitalisation is £5,400.
	www.terramedia.co.uk /Chronomedia/years/1913.htm (1211 words)

	Selig Polyscope Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company founded in 1896 in Chicago, Illinois by William Selig.
		The company grew rapidly and by 1909 had branch studios in Los Angeles, California and New Orleans, Louisiana.
		This page was last modified 12:34, 31 August 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selig_Polyscope_Company (71 words)

	Francis Boggs, Forgotten Movie Pioneer
		He toured the "southern mine country" around Sonora with the Boggs-Hernandez Stock Company in the summer of 1899, and in 1900, census enumerators found Boggs, his wife Lillian, and their son Edwin, in Los Angeles staying at the Ramona Hotel on Spring Street.
		At first, William N. Selig balked at establishing a permanent satellite studio–but Boggs and Hobart Bosworth responded with a manifesto that touted the advantages of California; and Selig discovered that his L.A. films were selling better than his Chicago-made product.
		Selig came west to admire his new studio in the fall of 1911.
	www.hollywoodheritage.org /newsarchive/summer99/boggs.html (741 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		The Motion Picture Patents Company was formed on September 9, 1908, as a patents pool to oversee the patents claimed by Edison, American Mutoscope and Biograph, Vitagraph, and Armat, and to license various companies as producers and distributors.
		The General Film Company was established on April 18, 1910, by the licensed producers as a distribution company for their films.
		This collection was created by gathering material on to both companies from the Selig Collection (with donations from William N. Selig and Charles G. Clarke), together with additional material, also from Clarke, that may have belonged to Selig.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/motionpic_118.html (198 words)

	Location Text and List of Documents - The Edison Papers
		The court ruled against the company on October 1, 1915, and January 24, 1916.
		The material, which covers the period 1909-1919, pertains to the administration and dissolution of the General Film Co. The selected items deal primarily with the related interests of the Edison Manufacturing Co. and Thomas A. Edison, Inc. The folders are arranged according to year.
		Méliès and George Méliès Company; (10) Pathé Frères Moving Pictures and Compagnie Générale des Phonographes, Cinématographes et Appareils de Précision Pathé Frères; (11) Selig Polyscope Company; and (12) Vitagraph Company of America.
	edison.rutgers.edu /NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?gloc=CK900 (740 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.
		On January 12, 1912, the bulk of the Essanay Western company arrived in San Diego county with two automobiles, a stage coach, and a herd of trained horses.
		A spokesman for the Ammex company implied that the success of the Flying A troup in nearby Lakeside prompted the location of the new firm in the San Diego area.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/76fall/film.htm (3647 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Events from 1900 to 1917
		The Selig Polyscope Company leads the exodus of motion picture companies from the east coast to Los Angeles, where the mild climate, abundant sunshine and variety of natural backdrops provide the ingredients for year-round filmmaking in the era of outdoor production.
		Accusing WFM leaders of election fraud and collusion with the copper companies, the insurgents blow up the union hall, leading Montana's governor to send in the state militia to restore order.
		While the city is under martial law, company officials take advantage of the situation by withdrawing union recognition, leaving miners on both sides of the dispute without job protections.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/events/1900_1917.htm (1316 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Hobart Bosworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A major influence on the establishment of Southern California as the film capital of the world, veteran stage actor Hobart Bosworth was often called the "Dean of Hollywood." A star on Broadway in the late 19th century (Hedda Gabler, opposite Mrs.
		He led the Selig company to Los Angeles the following years and was credited with starring in the first film to be shot on the West Coast, the 1,000-feet-long In the Sultan's Power (1909).
		He both directed and starred in the company's initial production, a seven-reel version of The Sea Wolf (1913) filmed at Truckee, CA, and went on to produce and star in John Barleycorn (1913), The Valley of the Moon (1914), and Martin Eden (1914).
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/6745/bio.jhtml (387 words)

	William N. Selig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finally, he was able to build his camera and projector, based on the Lumiere system, and shot his first film in 1896 under the auspices of his new enterprise, the Selig Polyscope Company.
		In 1910, Selig hired a vaudeville actor bearing a slight resemblance to Theodore Roosevelt, and while the President was on safari in Africa, made a movie (ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA) of a lion hunt in his Chicago studio.
		Although the Selig zoo remained opened for many years more, the Selig Polyscope Company was no more.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho2/selig_w.htm (429 words)

	Selig Studios Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Encyclopedia: Harold MacGrath
		Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication.
		The Adventures of Kathlyn is an American motion picture serial released on December 29, 1913 by the Selig Polyscope Company.
		Among MacGrath's short stories made into film was the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks Production Company's feature-length adventure film The Mollycoddle based on MacGrath's short story with the same title that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1913.
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