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for him a small-sized fortune. This a decade before other producers who are to-day doing the same thing on Broadway.
Besides the fortune, Mr. Lubin had a greater reputation than he ever before possessed. Every dollar in profits went back into the production of films and with it came the same increased profits. The larger plant and the greater productions that began to come from the Lubin studios continued to lead the way for other American producers, until to-day Lubin films are in use in every country upon which the sun shines, and the export business of the company of which Mr. Lubin is the head is as great as the output for domestic exhibition.
The greatest evidence of the Lubin foresight was the fact that he built a plant large enough to manufacture the films not only made in his own studios but is now also turning out regular releases of four of the largest film companies in America to-day. The Lubin plant is still growing by leaps and bounds, and, if needed, the two factories could to-day turn out two million feet of film every twenty-four hours.
Manufacturers have talked about the film industry as being still in its infancy. While they have talked, Siegmund Lubin has studied and built. What his plans for the future are no one but himself knows. It is no uncommon sight to see him send for one of his executives and unfold to that official plans for the future that are simply staggering in their resourcefulness, and after the executive has reported back with the cost of the new undertaking, the plan is either put into operation, or filed away in that wonderful storehouse, ready for development when the mind of