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The Patent Trust was now completely organized, so they set out to force the film distributors and movie exhibitors to operate according to rules devised by the Trust. Good luck!
After a year of political gamesmanship, the two different patent groups, one headed by Edison Company, and the other headed by the Biograph Company, merged to create the official Patent Trust.
At the bginning of 1908, Biograph Company was on hard times. Then they hired D. W. Griffith, and everything changed.
In 1908, Kalem was a brand new film company focused on making quality films. One of ther first projects was to make a movie from the best selling novel Ben Hur.
The two Chicago movie companies, Essay and Selig, were making westerns by the end of 1907, and started to explore the American West as a backdrop to those movies.
It's 1907, and the movie business is growing rapidly. In an attempt to control it, the Edison Company attempts to organized a patent trust with the other old guard movie companies.
By 1907, NIckelodeon movie theaters were spreading across America. There were problems with the concept as it existed at the time, and there were people who were not going to let those theaters get away with those problems.
In 1907 and 1908, the movies became a part of our lives, and with it came issues.
In 1904, the movies were a novelty. By 1907, the movies had become a national obsession. It time to look at the bigger picture as it concerns the big change.
When the first movie companies started to make studios, and then hiring technicians to work in them, it was also time to start hiring actors.
By 1907, every company in the movie machine business was now focused on making movies, and that required cameramen, camerawomen, and directors. This episode takes a look at who they were.
The movie business really started to take off around 1907, and as it did, the first movie companies started building studios.
A look at the movies from the middle of the first decade of the Twentieth Century, from Parsifal to The Moon Lover to The Little Girl Who Didn't Believe In Santa Claus.
New York was not the only city to develop a film industry at the beginning ofthe twentieth century. Chicago also developed a strong film industry that not only made films, it distributed them. Was Chicago going to be the new leader in film ma
The murder of architect Stanford White by millionaire Harry Thaw was a scandal that made national news. And, in the end, the movies attemptedto cash in on the crime's notoriety.
The very early history of Australian cinema is told through the success of the legendary movie THE STORY OF THE NED KELLY GANG. The movie's success also allowed a group of men to create an entertainment monopoly down under, a monopoly that suf
After an earthquake hit San Francisco in April of 1906, a series of short documentary movies were released that drew a lot of attention to the movies just as their were becoming a rage among the public.
While America and France were both aggressively marketing movies, England's efforts seemed rather anemic with Cecil Hepworth proving to be more ambitious than the rest.
By around 1906 or so, an invisible network of movie exhibition existed which has not been well researched up to this time. We'll try to take a look at this places if we can.
As America's film market rapidly grows, the movie makers ignore the expanding market, and dawdle in making movies. French Pathé, hoping to conquer the American market, rushes in to fill the void.
Looking at the legend of Harry DAvid's Nickelodeon theater on Pittsburgh, as it would soon be considered America's first movie house.
America discovered amusements after the Chicago World's Fair and Coney, and thanks to that, George Hale devised a amusement ride that involved stationary train cars and travel movies.
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