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  Thanhouser Company (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Thanhouser Company (later the Thanhouser Film Corporation) was a motion picture studio founded in New Rochelle, New York in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser.
In 1912 Thanhouser sold the company to the Mutual Film Corporation, after which Charles J. Hite took on overseeing day-to-day operations and Thanhouser's family toured Europe.
The Thanhouser Corporation, in excellent financial condition despite an industry-wide depression, leased its studio space to the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation and ceased operations in 1917.
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 About Thanhouser Company
Edwin W. Thanhouser is president of Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. He is the grandson of founders Gertrude and Edwin Thanhouser and has been actively involved in the research, acquisition, preservation and publication of education materials related to the early silent motion picture era since 1986.
Thanhouser has produced six VHS tapes and one DVD disc containing 26 surviving Thanhouser films making these rare titles available to researchers, scholars and film lovers after almost 90 years since they were last seen by the general public.
Thanhouser Company Film Preservations, Inc. plans to use funds generated through the sale of video and CD-ROM products and contributions from public presentation of Thanhouser films, to support the preservation of the over 13,000 feet of Thanhouser nitrate films presently in storage at archives around the world.
www.thanhouser.org /about.htm   (249 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Thanhouser Classics
Thanhouser, based in New Rochelle, New York, was known for its attempts to bring quality to an artform still in its creaky infancy.
Edwin Thanhouser was the first American studio head who came from legitimate theater, which may explain the company's attention to detail, narrative verisimilitude, and the building of a stock company of the kind that existed in the theater.
Thanhouser was acquired by the Mutual Film Company in 1912 but kept its stock company and studio.
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 Thanhouser Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thanhouser Company (later the Thanhouser Film Corporation) was a motion picture studio founded in New Rochelle, New York in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser (November 11, 1865 to March 21, 1956), Gertrude Thanhouser (April 23, 1882 to May 29, 1951) and Lloyd Lonergan (March 3, 1870, to April 6, 1937).
In the spring of 1912 The Thanhousers and Lonergan sold their interest in the company to the Mutual Film Corporation and remained involved in films released through early 1913.
The Thanhousers, having fled the outbreak of World War I while vacationing in Europe, resumed their duties as a now-salaried studio executives in 1915 and ran the company until it closed in 1918.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thanhouser_Studios   (296 words)

  
 Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, 1909-1918 - A Journal for MultiMedia History CD-ROM review
Producing films in its suburban New Rochelle, New York, studio, the Thanhouser Company was a medium-sized firm well-known for its high quality films featuring dramas drawn from literature, genteel comedies and the "high class" performances of its stable of actors.
It single-handedly rescues the Thanhouser Company from obscurity and re-establishes its importance as one of the major film producers from the late-nickelodeon era up to the First World War.
News releases issued by Thanhouser and other companies were one thing, and the truth was often likely to be another.
www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol2no1/thanhouser.html   (1705 words)

  
 Silent Era: People: Executives: Edwin Thanhouser
Edwin Thanhouser was born in Baltimore in 1865.
Thanhouser retired from the motion picture business and took his family on a grand tour of Europe, where he remained until the World War broke out in August 1914.
By the autumn of 1917, Thanhouser and his secretary, Miss Jessie Bishop, were the only remaining employees at the studio, while he waited for his contract to expire.
www.silentera.com /people/executives/Thanhouser-Edwin.html   (700 words)

  
 Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.
Edwin W. Thanhouser is president of Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. He is the grandson of founders Gertrude and Edwin Thanhouser of Thanhouser Company and has been actively involved in the research, acquisition, preservation and publication of education materials related to the early silent motion picture era since 1986.
Thanhouser Company produced over 1000 films between 1909 and 1917 at a major point in the movie industries history.
The Thanhouser Company made a significant impact on the direction of the film industry.
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 Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Thanhouser photographer and cameraman Lawrence Williams with his equipment (Courtesy of the American Museum of the Moving Image/Lawrence Williams Collection)
, is a non- profit 501(c)(3) organization involved in the research, acquisition, preservation and publication of educational materials related to the early silent motion picture era, with a specific focus on the Thanhouser film enterprise.
Copyright © 2005 Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc., All rights reserved.
www.thanhouser.org.cob-web.org:8888   (110 words)

  
 Thanhouser Classics Video Collector's Set:0810834561:Thanhouser Company Film Preservation Inc.; Thanhouser Company Film ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 University of Chicago - Film Studies Center (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A related link is the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. is a nonprofit company dedicated to the acquisition, preservation and distribution of films, photographs and research materials about the Thanhouser Company, and its successor company, Thanhouser Film Corporation.
If you have questions about the following sites, please contact the organization or company managing the site.
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