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who, like a few others, are now producing in their own studio — Giles R. Warren, who writes and directs photoplays— Marion Leonard, the first photoplay celebrity, now entrenched in her own studio — Oscar C Apfel, who made "Reliance" photoplays famous, now directing Lasky productions.
CHAPTER VIII.
Pages 167 to 179. The New York Motion Picture Company — Its growth a tribute to the enterprise of Messrs. Kessel and Baumann, who represent a great industry in the fullest sense — W. N. Selig, pioneer and genius of a 20th century new art, whom Elbert Hubbard calls "Energy personified" — Siegmund Lubin, the man of destiny, erstwhile optician, present-day philanthropist — Betzwood now called Lubinville.
CHAPTER IX.
Pages 180 to 205. Ch. Jour j on, of Paris and New York, head of the Eclair Company — Adolph Zukor, who created the Famous Players Film Company, and who conceived the idea of immortalizing the actor — The Paramount Features Corporation means theatrical methods in "Booking" films — The unique place WiUiam L. Sherry has made for himself in less than two years, proving that, after all, high-grade business methods is the greater requisite in filmdom — jMarcus Loew reducing his vaudeville commitments and increasing his moving-picture investments means merely a return to first principles — David Bernstein, who began with Loew at $16 a week, now earning .$50,000 a year — The Essanay Film Company of Chicago — The distinguished players who appear before the camera for Pathe Freres — The Eclectic Film Company in two years became a tremendous fac