The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

286 Ci)e Cijeatre Film Company, sign of the Flying A, has a splendid studio and several companies. At Niles, "Broncho Billy" Anderson and his Essanay companies are turning out pictures in lively fashion. At San Rafael the well-knowrn Lucius Henderson is establishing a plant for the newly organized California Film Company, backed by San Francisco millionaires. At San Diego, on the south, the Ammex Company has been operating, but now is resting for a time. The Balboa Company always has two to three directors at its Long Branch studio. In beautiful Glendale, a foothill city near Los Angeles, are the effective Western Kalem forces, under the general management of George Melford. Here famous battles are fought again in realistic manner and historical Indian uprisings are reproduced on the film. A large aggregation of native Americans is engaged for these early dramas. In this same locality the Usona Company is at work producing independent films. Lucius Henderson retired from the California Film Company in June, 1914. At Santa Monica, the seaside resort, the Vitagraph has maintained a Western studio for more than three years, where the genius of Rollin S. Sturgeon is responsible for some of the most successful productions of filmdom. In Santa Ynez caiion adjoining Santa Monica on the coast, is the remarkable working headquarters of the New York Motion Picture Company, wide ■ ly known as Inceville, because of its development by Thomas H. Ince, vice-president and general manager of the corporation. The holdings cover 20,000 acres of mountain and caiion, with an easy access to the ocean. Here Mr. Ince has built in a remarkable way. Not only has he natural scenery for rugged Western pictures, for great battles and stirring raids, but has con