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- [The Vitagraph Company of America, originating as American Vitagraph, was one of the most important of the early American film companies. It was the first to build up a stable of stars, the first to experiment successfully with animated and trick films, and the first to use the motion picture for propaganda purposes.
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The American Vitagraph Company made many contributions to the history of movie-making. In 1903 the director Joseph Delmont started his career by producing westerns; he later became famous by using "wild carnivores " in his films—a sensation for that time.
American Vitagraph had it's beginnings as 'The International Novelty Company' in London England as Ronald A. Reader, Stuart Blackton and Albert Edward Smith (1875-1958) called themselves while conjuring magic tricks, cartooning, giving magic lantern shows and entertaining with vaudeville acts.
Mar 23, 2021 · But make films they did, by the hundred in every genre from knock-about farce to Shakespeare adaptations. In 1906 they moved operations from the roof of their Manhattan office building to a purpose-built “manufacturing plant” in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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May 1, 2006 · by Kevin Lewis. Before the major studios of the sound era existed, there was actually the giant Vitagraph Studio, which was built 100 years ago. It was the veritable cradle of the film industry roughly comparable to Henry Ford’s revolutionizing of the auto industry with the assembly line.
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).
James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897.
For years, France’s contribution to the invention of cinema has been overstated. British, American, and German filmmakers designed and constructed the equipment necessary to record and show moving pictures, which the Lumière Brothers and others then made improvements on.
