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formed the Film Supply Company of America. At this time a body of capitalists, under Charles J. Kite's direction, purchased the Thanhouser Film Corporation and became allied with Mr. Aitken.
This proved the nucleus for the formation of the Mutual Film Corporation. Since that time the growth of the Mutual has been rapid, steady and secure.
In 1910 Mr. Aitken established in London, England, the Western Import Company which handles the foreign business of the Mutual Film Corporation. He put in charge his younger brother, Roy E. Aitken. This concern has turned out to be one of the largest film selling and distributing organizations in Europe. It has offices in Paris, Vienna, Brussels, London and several other cities of Great Britain. Many other agencies are being established and the firm is also preparing to open producing studios in Europe.
In the latter part of December, 1913, Mr. Aitken organized the Reliance Motion Picture Company to produce films for the Mutual program. The new organization took over the Carlton Motion Picture Laboratories, situated on the old Clara Morris estate on the dividing line between New York and Yonkers; the finely-equipped studio and laboratory at Hollywood, near Los Angeles, California, formerly occupied by the Kinemacolor Company of America, and established a nev/ producing studio in the heart of New York, at Sixteenth Street and Broadway, 29 Union Square West, which is the only studio on Broadway. Mr. Aitken himself is the president of the Majestic Company and the largest stockholder and controlling factor in that concern. He is also an officer and one of the largest stockholders of the New York Motion Picture Corporation.