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of Science 25
Here were three men, all showmen, each possessing technical knowledge of the craft from different angles, and each had already accumulated a bank account; hence in the Nassau street office in 1899 the Vitagraph Company began the expansion which, after fifteen years, has assumed such vast proportions that one may only conjecture an estimate as to the total valuation of its world-wide holdings. Yet, as the Vitagraph has accomplished greater things in the last year than in all the previous years combined, the historian who may be called upon in the near future to recite the growth of the film industry v/ill surely not lack for a basic example of extraordinary achievement in the prolonged and harmonious activities of the three pioneers accidentally brought together on that Third avenue corner on a wintry night sixteen years ago.
All three of the heads of the Vitagraph Company v/ere wont to help out in the acting before the camera in those years v/hen the vaudeville managers relied on the productivity of the film studio as the most effective "chaser" v/ithin their reach, but one day, as stated elsewhere, moving pictures ceased to be regarded as a "chaser," and the gentlemen who might have controlled all filmdom as they do control the greater part of high-grade vaudeville, were awakened not only to the value of the motion picture as a feature, but discovered, to their joy and amazement, that an entire performance could be given, if necessary, without an actor treading the boards in the flesh.
This revelation of the influence of the motion picture came late in 1900, and it happened this way:
In that year the so-called vaudeville trust v/as born and in the same year it so nearly came a-cropper that but for the patience and perseverance of Daniel F.