Search results
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a film studio founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, originally titled the American Vitagraph Company. In the late 1900s, Vitagraph was one of the most prolific American film studios.
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films. [1]
Jul 20, 2023 · Vitagraph started churning out a number of very short dramatic films and light comedies and also wasted no time making newsreels, famously capturing the Spanish American war in 1898 (although some films were “assisted” by staging naval battles in a bathtub at the studio).
- History
- Location
- Notable Films
In 1896, English émigré Blackton was moonlighting as a reporter/artist for the New York Evening World]when he was sent to interview Thomas Edisonabout his new film projector. The inventor talked the entrepreneurial reporter into buying a set of films and a projector. A year later, Blackton and business partner Smith founded the American Vitagraph C...
Vitagraph's first office was in Lower Manhattan, on the corner of Nassau St. and Beekman St., where they shot their first film, The Burglar on the Roof, in 1897. They subsequently opened the first modern film studio in the U.S., built in 1906, at the corner of East 14th St. and Locust Ave. (near Avenue M) in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. They cr...
The Humpty Dumpty Circus(1898)The Enchanted Drawing(1900)Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom(1905)Humorous Phases of Funny Faces(1906)May 1, 2006 · Vitagraph opened in November 1906, between E. 14th Street, Avenue M, E. 15th Street and Locust Avenue in what is now the Midwood section of Brooklyn, it was a marvel. Blackton produced the first animated film, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, there that year.
Very prolific in its day and older than Hollywood itself, Vitagraph was not only one of the earliest film studios but it created one of the very first movie stars – and it’s usually credited with creating the very first animal star, too. It was also well respected by its contemporaries.
People also ask
Who founded Vitagraph Studios?
How did Vitagraph get famous?
When did Vitagraph become a film company?
Where did Vitagraph come from?
Vitagraph produced films from eleven of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays between 1908 and 1912, making seven in 1908 alone. It isn’t difficult to imagine the result: actors gesticulate in togas or medieval garb, alternating with a profusion of lengthy intertitles.
