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	Vitagraph Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company's first claim to fame came from newsreels: Vitagraph cameramen were on the scene to film events from the Spanish-American War of 1898.
		Vitagraph was not the only company seeking to make money off of Edison's motion picture inventions, and Edison's lawyers were very busy at the end of the nineteenth century filing patents and suing competitors.
		Major stars included Florence Turner (the "Vitagraph Girl"), Maurice Costello (the first of the matinee idols), and Jean (the "Vitagraph Dog" and the first animal star of the Silent Era).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vitagraph_Studios (701 words)

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		In 1908 Vitagraph was a burgeoning film company which would soon become one of the most successful and enduring studios in the industry.
		Jean was now graced with the title, "Jean the Vitagraph Dog," and was paired with Turner for a score of films between 1908 and 1913, all of which were directed by Trimble.
		Vitagraph was the first mass market film studio and, roughly speaking, their motto was, "Give the people what they want!".
	www.imaginenews.com /Archive/2000/MAR_2000/Text/FEAT06.htm (1342 words)

	Vitagraph Cinema Glasgow
		Named after its projection equipment, The Vitagraph just along Sauchiehall Street from Glasgow's first purpose-built cinema, the Charing Cross Electric Theatre opened in 1912 and was constructed of Portland stone with statues on either side and crowned with a statue of an angel.
		In 1914, The Vitagraph was renamed The Kings and in 1917 was sold to John Maxwell's Scottish Cinemas and Variety Theatres, the circuit that would eventually become ABC.
		The Vitagraph's final twenty years were spent as a Curzon Classic, Tatler Cinema Club and a Curzon showing "uncensored" adult films into the 80's by which time the adult film market was firmly established on home video and The Vitagraph, with nowhere else to go, closed in February 1984 and now trades as a club.
	www.glasgowcinemas.co.uk /vitagraphcinemag.html (247 words)

	1910 Vitagraph Film Homepage
		At the time, most "full-length" movies were "one-reelers" (about 15 minutes long), and were shown in theaters as part of about an hour's worth of entertainment usually involving a live singer as well as several films.
		Vitagraph's three reels were released on three different days: Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, July 26-30, 1910.
		Only one print of the 1910 Vitagraph version seems to have survived: designed for European distribution, its titles are in Danish, and it is in The National Film and Television Archive, in London.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /utc/onstage/films/mv10hp1.html (364 words)

	Vitagraph Studios Brooklyn
		The large smokestack with the words VITAGRAPH Co. emblazoned on it, still stands tall in what was once farmland on E. 14th.
		From about 1907 until 1925 silent movies were produced at the Vitagraph studios, and later after being acquired by Warner Brothers, talkie movies were produced there.
		One of the interesting aspects of several of these films, was the fact that some of the actual filming was done right on the local neighborhood streets.
	subway.com.ru /vitagraph (129 words)

	Larry Semon
		Semon and Vitagraph were still busy in the courtrooms, and with the added concern of a drop in quality of his films, everything was ripe for the final blowout everyone was waiting for between the comic and the studio.
		He was immediately reminded by Vitagraphâs attorneys that he owed them three more two-reelers under their agreement and that he was still an exclusively contracted Vitagraph artist.
		Graham Baker was credited with the screenplay, Oliver Hardy had left Vitagraph with Semon, leaving behind five years of happy and gainful employment at the studio (he and his wife Myrtle had actually lived across the street from the studio at the time).
	www.classicimages.com /2000/july00/semon.shtml (7988 words)

	vitagraph
		At left we see a scene from Vitagraph Studios, which was located at East 15th St. just north of Avenue M in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, then known as South Greenfield.
		Vitagraph Studios turned out hundreds of silent Westerns and Civil war battle pictures in the surrounding neighborhood, which was still open country in the 1910's.
		The Vitagraph smokestack, still clearly marked with the name of the old studios, can be seen from Locust Avenue from just east of the subway tracks at East 15th Street.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /ADS/Vitagraph/vitagraph.html (343 words)

	Editors Guild Magazine - Features
		Vitagraph was also at the forefront of the development of sound after it was acquired by Warner Bros. in the mid- 1920s.
		The history of Vitagraph and its adjacent buildings has been disputed by film historians, but what follows is as close an approximation as this writer can achieve.
		Vitagraph boasted the first glass-enclosed studio, a studio tank for battle and sea scenes, costume and set design shops, vast editing and processing rooms and lavish sets.
	www.editorsguild.com /v2/magazine/archives/0506/features_article01.htm (1311 words)

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		And her many guests united in claiming it was the most beautiful compliment any home ever received, for the little Vitagraph star, who had never known a home in all her life, welcomed her friends into her own home, which she had worked for and paid for all herself.
		When she applied to the Western Vitagraph Company she was engaged immediately, and for a while she played in minor parts, becoming accustomed to the camera and its limitations.
		She attended school in Colorado, Kansas and California, but the greater portion of her education was received at the hands of her mother, who, because of her early life and experiences in professional circles, realized the disadvantage under which the child of professionals is usually educated.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bruce/Taylor84.txt (7716 words)

	MoMA Celebrates Vitagraph Studios - November 10, 2006 - The New York Sun
		The Museum of Modern Art is honoring that history with a film series, running now through November 13, called "Vitagraph: The Big V on Avenue M." Known as Vitagraph Company studios, it was the child of J.
		One of Vitagraph's early stars was John Bunny, the first of the great movie comedians, predating Charlie Chaplin.
		Perhaps the best known today of the Vitagraph stars was Norma Talmadge, whose great career as a silent film actress began at Vitagraph when she was still a student at Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush.
	www.nysun.com /article/43326 (1123 words)

	Gary Merrill
		(Vitagraph tolerated less nonsense from Aubrey, his pictures earned much less than Semon's did.) Aubrey was apparently suspicious of everyone (this was a man who made Vitagraph pay him weekly in gold) and was unhappy with anyone on his set who seemed to be stealing his glory.
		She was off the screen for Semon's entire 1921 season, having been hospitalized for a "nervous breakdown." She returned in 1922, and she and Larry announced their engagement on July 13, 1922, although it is not clear whether or not they were actually married.
		Although Semon's Vitagraph comedies of the 1921-22 season were some of his most popular and financially successful films, already critics were beginning to remark upon a sense of sameness.
	www.classicimages.com /1999/october99/semon.htm (3650 words)

	Communication
		The Vitaport also detects that the link to Vitagraph is broken, but this needs about 32 seconds, before this is detected.
		How it works: if the recording is started, either with the remote function in Vitagraph or with the keys on the recorder the on-lime time-out is set to 0, so that no on-line time-out is active.
		Vitagraph has to send a Xon character to the Vitaport on regular base.
	www.cuci.nl /~temec/communication.htm (279 words)

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		Of all the stars in the Vitagraph galaxy John Bunny was probably the most loyal.
		He came to Vitagraph's Brooklyn studio in 1910 and took a job at $40.00 a week giving up the $150.00 a week salary he was earning on the 'legitimate' stage.
		Within four years he was earning $1000.00 a week and his face was insured for $100,000.
	www.brooklynposters.com /vitagraph_players.htm (197 words)

	About Vitagraph
		The distribution arm of the American Cinematheque in Hollywood, Vitagraph Films/American Cinematheque Presents...
		To date, Vitagraph has acquired rights to seven Japanese genre films that were well received at American Cinematheque screenings during its popular Japanese Outlaw Masters series.
		Vitagraph is also handling theatrical for WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, BUNDY (directed by Matthew Bright - FREEWAY) and Miike's HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS in 2002.
	prettybug.com /vitagraph/aboutvitagraph.htm (315 words)

	Dollars and the Woman (1920)
		Caption: Alice Joyce, who as the star of Vitagraph's "Dollars and the Woman" adds another appealing role to her list of screen heroines.
		In putting "Dollars and the Woman" on the screen, the Vitagraph was enabled to photoplay one of the most interesting subjects that company has done in a long time.
		As Terhune writes vividly and interestingly upon the "eternal triangle" theme it is only natural to assume that a cameraed version of one of his stories is bound to prove of intense interest.
	www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/datw.htm (1049 words)

	Florence Turner - Silent Star of May, 1998
		She was known simply as The Vitagraph Girl, in a time before "stars" were stars, but she was one of the first well-known screen stars and the first to be put under contract by a film company.
		As with any small company, the young actress wore a variety of hats: she kept the books, paid the staff and artists, and was clerk, cashier, and accountant, never hesitating to pitch in whenever and wherever needed.
		While at Vitagraph she performed in a wide variety of roles, in films such as A Tale of Two Cities, Lancelot and Elaine, Jealousy, The Deerslayer, The Closed Door, and The Dixie Mother.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/May98 (832 words)

	Clara Kimball Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After sending a photograph to the Vitagraph motion picture studios Clara Kimball Young, along with her husband James, were offered yearly contracts in 1912.
		By 1913 she had become one of the most popular leading ladies at Vitagraph and placed at number seventeen in a public popularity poll.
		In 1914 Vitagraph released the drama My Official Wife which starred Young as a Russian revolutionary and was directed by her husband James Young and co-starred the popular leading man Earle Williams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clara_Kimball_Young (758 words)

	urbanography(sm)--Where the Dream Was Made by Irvin Leigh Matus - page 9
		Moe Howard claims to have been a juvenile actor for the studio, and the roster of the "Vitagraph Family" includes such names as Oliver Hardy, Boris Karloff, Adolphe Menjou, Victor McLaglen, King Vidor, and the ever-popular Francis X. Bushman.
		In the '20s, Vitagraph came under increasing pressure from Hollywood filmmakers, especially Adolph Zukor of Paramount, to drive it out of business.
		The last installment, in the April 18th issue, concluded: "it is fitting to say that the Vitagraph Company is at this moment on the eve of momentous decisions.
	urbanography.com /urban/0006/vita9.htm (428 words)

	larrysemonbio
		The suit is unique in that Vitagraph does not ask that it be released from its contract, but insists the star make good the damages and continue his employment.
		Five pictures have been released, another has just been completed, and Vitagraph declares it is practically impossible for Semon to deliver more than a total of seven pictures during the first year.
		Vitagraph did a little commotion raising itself, and the the dust of the battle settled, Larry was temporarily vanquished.
	home.netcom.com /~lippfarr/semonbio.htm (1516 words)

	Womanhood, The Glory of the Nation (1917)
		It is reported that the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Preparedness Society, The American Defense League, the National Security Society and the Navy League had made plans for a nation-wide campaign to make sure that every able-bodied man would see this film.
		"Womanhood: the Glory of the Nation." Greater Vitagraph's militant film spectacle which began an indefinite run at the Broadway Theater, New York, last Sunday night, will be one of the most convincing evidences of the value of motion pictures in a time like the present.
		It is the most powerful of arguments for preparedness and the least enthusiastic American could scarcely fail to be stirred by the fervor of its patriotic purpose.
	www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/wgotn.htm (1254 words)

	Biography for Larry Semon (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By that time, Larry Semon was one of the top movie comedians, operating almost as his own boss on the Vitagraph lot, with substantially increased salary and budgets.
		Semon began having problems with the Vitagraph brass, due to costs exceeding even his increased budgets and to his own arrogant behavior.
		Vitagraph eventually complained that the product Semon was providing was sub-standard, and in 1923 he ended his association with the studio.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0783865/bio (909 words)

	The Rise of Movie Palaces
		The Vitagraph, as it was called, was the first to offer long feature films for a dollar, while Nickelodeons only played shorts.
		When the Strand opened in 1914, the Vitagraph was replaced as the leading movie theater on Broadway.
		The Strand was very different from the Vitagraph for a number of reasons.
	www.american.edu /bgriff/dighistprojects/johnson/page3.htm (701 words)

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		But the old Vitagraph days are so rich in film history and film adventure one feels the half has not been told.
		The Vitagraph pictures were shown at this theatre and they were supplemented with acts in which Vitagraph starts participated.
		He started it in the old Vitagraph days when "The Battle Cry of the Republic" was being exhibited as an urge for patriotism, and he has continued it now that he is with Selznick and the subject of Americanization is still a favorite topic.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bruce/Taylor67.txt (12245 words)

	Vitascope Hall
		Formed by two English expatriates, J. Stuart Blackton and Albert Smith, the American Vitagraph Company was the most successful of the pioneer film studios.
		The vitagraph pictures made a hit, particularly the ones showing President Roosevelt in the Yale bi-centennial parade at New Haven and those showing the Columbia defeating the Shamrock.
		"Interest in the vitagraph pictures of the Waterbury fire drew large audiences to the Jacques yesterday afternoon and evening, it is safe to say no one in the large audience went away dissatisfied.
	kempsjig.tripod.com /bijoudream/id28.html (293 words)

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		In a few years Vitagraph would build a large film studio on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, But we're getting ahead of the story.
		The name of their first film was "The Burglar On The Roof." The film lasted one minute and cost $3.50 to produce.
		In February of 1923 Vitagraph became the first American film company to celebrate 25 years of operation.
	www.brooklynposters.com /before_hollywood.htm (301 words)

	Guide to Motion Picture Catalogs - The Edison Papers
		With the encouragement of American Vitagraph, he sued Eberhard Schneider, a New York exhibitor and film producer.
		[29] While a brief rapprochement occurred late in 1900, Vitagraph's license was again withdrawn in January 1901 because it had failed to pay a required royalty.
		Edison's lawyers submitted this Vitagraph catalog (K-002) as evidence to prove that Blackton and Smith were continuing their independent film activities.
	edison.rutgers.edu /mopix/biograph.htm (1104 words)

	Norma Talmadge - Silent Star of November, 1997
		Peg and Norma continued to haunt Vitagraph for calls, and in 1910 Norma got small parts in such films as A Dixie Mother as the young daughter of a patriotic Southern mother (played by Florence Turner) who elopes with a Northerner.
		Founded around 1894, Vitagraph was acquired by Warner Brothers in the mid-1920s.
		In 1913 she was voted Vitagraph's most promising young player in an exhibitors' poll, and was ranked 42nd in Photoplay Magazine's popularity poll.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/Nov97 (1275 words)

	Articles > Alice Calhoun
		Starting in bit parts, she quickly worked her way up to leading roles when she was contracted by Vitagraph**.
		When Vitagraph was purchased by Warner Bros. in 1925, she worked as a freelancer until she retired from the film business in 1934.
		Vitagraph name continued to be used as a trademark by Warner Bros. through the 1950s.
	www.pictureshowman.com /articles_personalities_calhoun.cfm (841 words)

	MAURICE COSTELLO
		The son of Irish immigrants, Costello was born February 22, 1877 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
		He was among the first actors to receive on-screen credit beginning in 1911, and he made a strong impression in Vitagraph's three-reel adaptation of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1911).
		When he returned to Vitagraph in The Captain's Captain (released January, 1919), he was playing supporting roles, and although he had a long string of screen credits throughout the 1920's they were mostly in low-budget films.
	hollywoodheritage.org /newsarchive/spring01/costello.html (853 words)

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