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Adam Kessel, Jr. (1866–1946) was a film company executive. He partnered with Charles Baumann in a series of film distribution and production companies. [1] Kessel was one of the founders of the New York Motion Picture Company in 1909.
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Kessel was the eldest son of Adam Kessel Sr. and Christine Petermann, the first of nine children. His father was the middle of five children born in New York to parents who had both emigrated from Bavaria, most likely in the mass migrations of the 1840s, and he was employed in a wide variety of professions, including as a bartender, liquor dealer, ...
Alongside national and ethnic identity, the issue of social class has been equally important in evaluating both the rapid popularity of moving pictures among urban audiences and the equally rapid technological development of the industry itself. As early as 1910, the editor of the leading trade journal, Moving Picture World’s Thomas Bedding, was as...
While it shares some key features, Adam Kessel’s story is not exactly the rags-to-riches (or even rags-to-riches-back-to-rags) narrative that is often the default for histories of early film pioneers. As we have seen, his origin is not exactly that of the newly-arrived immigrant, but instead that of a second-generation German Protestant born into a...
Already in 1918, when he was still nominally involved with Triangle, at least for purposes of public perception, a profile of Adam Kessel began “‘A. KESSEL JR.’ That name doesn’t mean anything to you, does it, reader? You never even heard of it before, perhaps. Yet A. Kessel Jr. is not only one of the biggest figures in the motion picture industry,...
The Sales Company, as it was soon known, began as the attempt of Carl Laemmle, Adam Kessel, and Charles Baumann, representing IMP and the New York Motion Picture Company, to take over the marketing of all the independent production.
The New York Motion Picture Company was founded in 1909 by Adam Kessel, Charles O. Baumann, and camera operator Frank Balshofer. [1][4] Originally interested purely in film distribution, the company's refusal to work with Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) created difficulties in securing films. [5]
Whereas film historians have recognized the contributions of these figures to the development of the early film industry, little attention has been paid to the NYMPC heads, Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann.
Adam Kessel was born in 1866. He was a producer and actor, known for Disinherited Son's Loyalty (1909), Romance of a Fishermaid (1909) and A Terrible Attempt (1909). He died on September 21, 1946 in Keeseville, New York, USA.
Charles Bauman and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company (NYMPCo.) and Mack Sennett, formerly director of Biograph’s comedy unit, formed the Keystone Film Company in the summer of 1912, issuing its first releases on September 23 of that year.
