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Essanay Studios, officially the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, and later developed an additional film lot in Niles Canyon, California. Its various stars included Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson and studio co-owner, actor and director, Broncho Billy ...
The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, by George K. Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, originally as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Company. On August 10, 1907, the name was changed to Essanay (“S and A”). Essanay was originally located at 496 Wells Street (modern numbering: 1300 N. Wells). Essanay’s first film, “An Awful ...
His company was Essanay, and his studio was located on the 1300 N. Wells Street block in Chicago. The company had great success in the early years of the silent film industry. By 1908, Essanay began construction of a larger studio at 1333-1345 W. Argyle in Chicago. Essanay produced films that starred many of the most famous silent film actors ...
The Essanay Film Studios complex is owned by St. Augustine College, an independent, bilingual institution of higher education. The College enthusiastically embraces the history of the property and supports a rebirth of the Essanay Film Studios as the Essanay Centers for Early Film and Cultural Performance as an enhancement to the College and within the Uptown community.
Dec 5, 2019 · Back in the 1910s, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. was a big deal in Niles, California, as well as West Coast filmmaking. (Courtesy of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum) “Chaplin had been working at the Keystone Film Co. for $150 a week, and his contract was almost up. And Broncho Billy’s righthand man, Jess Robbins, signed him at Essanay ...
Mar 17, 2003 · George K. Spoor, 81, who as president of the Essanay Film company pioneered the moving picture industry in Chicago, died yesterday in his home at 908 Argyle st. Spoor and Gilbert M. (Broncho Billy) Anderson founded the company in 1897. Many stars of the silent films got their start in the studio at 1345 Argyle st.
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