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Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) [1] and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909).
Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 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,...
Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann arrived in 1909, and D.W. Griffith was right behind them. In 1911, two Englishmen who owned the Centaur Company established a branch office; Selig, Pathe, and Bison were in Edendale and Kalem was in Glendale.
May 25, 2016 · Sennett and Kessel reviewing the extension of the Mack Sennett Studios in Edendale, Los Angeles r2WPadmin 2018-08-08T01:14:50+00:00
Oct 31, 2017 · Adams first made a splash (or rather a crunch) in the art world while still an undergrad at the University of California, Los Angeles. For her transactional-cannibalistic performance Official Cannibal Status (1993), she had a surgeon remove a tiny bit of a donor’s muscle tissue, which Adams then consumed.
Feb 12, 2016 · From influential mainstays like Night Gallery to feisty, interdisciplinary newcomers like EMBASSY, the below galleries represent a sampling from the California megalopolis’s art scene —one brimfull of experimentation bolstered by an abundance of square footage in which artists can spread their wings.
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