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October 21, 1916
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STUDIO DIRECTORY
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OSCAR C. APFEL
Director of Features — Fox Film Corporation LESTER SCOTT— Assistant
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OTIS TURNER, DIRECTOR, FOX I
OTIS Turner, the first legitimate stage director to enter the motion picture field as a director, and who has the distinction of having made the first three reel subject and taught a number of the best directors of today their first lessons in the film art, recently left Universal, after almost five years of continuous service, and is now directing William Fox photoplays.
Mr. Turner was born in Fairfield, Indiana, and was educated in Indianapolis. At eighteen he did his first dramatic work, and continued on the stage until about eleven years ago. While on the stage Mr. Turner was with Henry W. Savage's "The College Widow," and other big productions. He produced the "Wizard of Oz" stories by L. Frank Baum, "The Two Orphans" and a number of other successes.
About eleven years ago he did his first work for pictures when he accepted an offer of William Selig to direct. He made the first wild animal picture titled "Hunting Big Game in Africa"; the first feature picture made in America, "The Spirit of '76"; the first war picture, "Stormy Days In Old Virginia"; the first western, "The Cowboy Millionaire." His "Coming of Columbus" was the first three reel picture.
Among the well-known directors of today who did their first work under Mr. Turner are Bob Leonard, William Worthington, Frank Lloyd, Herbert Brenon and others. The screen stars who first worked under the direction of Mr. Turner are Mabel Taliaferro, Tom Kerrigan, Fred Walton, Ethel Grandin, Kate Williams, Charles Clary, Harry Pollard, Marguerite Fischer, Tom Mix, , Myrtle Stedman, Herbert Rawlinson, and Ann Little.
Mr. Turner originated the plots for "The Black Box" serial, produced "Damon and Pythias," and made Universal features starring Nat Goodwin, George Fawcett, and others,
Two of his latest pictures are "Little Brother of the Rich" with Hobart Henley, Hobart Bosworth and Jane Novak, and "Son of The Immortals" with Jack W. Kerrigan. ' . • . . .* 1 i >
In August Mr. Turner went with the Fox organization, and his first picture there is an adaptation of Roy Norton's "Mediator" with George Walsh as star.
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