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The Chicago film industry is a central hub for motion picture production and exhibition that was established before Hollywood became the undisputed capital of film making. In the early 1900s, Chicago boasted the greatest number of production companies and filmmakers. [ 1 ]
Essanay Studios, officially the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago by George Kirke Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson , originally as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Company, then as Essanay (formed by the founders' initials: S and A) on August 10, 1907.
The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The company produced hundreds of early, widely distributed commercial moving pictures, including the first films starring Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Colleen Moore, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Foster Photoplay Company was a film production business in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1910 by William D. Foster [1] (also known as Juli Jones). It is widely considered to be the first film production company established by an African-American featuring all African-American casts.
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Silent film actress Mary Pickford, c. 1916. The Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park, Chicago was a movie palace for the Balaban and Katz theater chain. The theater's Baroque spire is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. This article delineates the history of cinema in the United States
In November 1952, Revere purchased the nearby Atwell Building – also designed by Alfred S. Alschuler [3] – at 221 E. Cullerton St., Chicago, Illinois – and operated machinery on four of the building's eight floors. [4] In the 1950s, the company was the second largest manufacturer of small movie cameras in the United States.
This newly introduced form of creativity made way for a whole new group of people to be introduced to stardom, including David W. Griffith, who made a name for himself with his 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation. In 1920, there were two major changes to the film industry: the introduction of sound and the creation of studio systems.