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

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
000575
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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562 Cl)e Cljeatte CHAPTER XVIII It was Gene Gauntier, now a producer of feature photoplays, who influenced the American Biograph Company to engage the world-famous director, D. W. Griffith. Miss Gauntier v/as leaving the Biograph studio to join the Kalem company, but before her departure she earned the gratitude of Henry N. Marvin because of her plea to give Griffith a directorship. I recall Miss Gauntier in the play "Texas," in which she played the leading role in 1907, but she had spent the previous season with the Biograph as its scenario editor. The work being too confining. Miss Gauntier accepted the position of leading lady with the Kalem Company, also writing the scenarios for the first film organization to leave New York. Also this lady headed the first company of photoplayers to go abroad. Following this European tour of film producing. Miss Gauntier proceeded to the Orient, where, under Sidney Olcott, the Kalem Company began to do the big things for which it is now famous. The culmination of this remarkable entourage came in Palestine, where the production of "From the Manger to the Cross"