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FLORENCE LAWRENCE, ARTHUR JOHNSON, CLARA T. BRACEY IN "RESURRECTION"
ARTHUR JOHNSON (BIOGRAPH)
ARTHUR JOHNSON, FLORENCE LAWRENCE IN "RESURRECTION"
MARY PICKFORD, BILLY QUIRK IN "THEY WOULD ELOPE"
With the public showing an increased interest in this new kind of entertainment, more motion picture comU U U parties were being formed. Carl Laemmle, a German immigrant who had given up a clothing business in Oshkosh to run a theatre in Chicago and who was at this time head of a film exchange, decided to go into production. He rented space in the independent Actophone Studio at Eleventh Avenue and Fiftv-third Street, New York, formed the Imp Company and started to make pictures. His first production was "Hiawatha," a one-reel feature with Gladys Hulette, and it was released October 25, 1909. Adam Kessel, who also ran a film exchange, formed a corporation to make pictures with Charles Bauman, Fred Balshofer, friends, and Louis Burston, an attorney They called it Bison Films and their first effort was "A True Indian's Heart." It was made in Coytesville, New Jersey, with Charles French playing the title role. P. A. Powers, a jobber in talking machines, opened a studio— the Powers Picture Plays— at Mount Vernon, New York, with Irving Cummings, an actor who had played in Lillian Russell's company, as the leading man. Other independent companies formed included the Yankee and Rex. Lois Weber and Phillips Smallev appeared in the early Rex pictures. Meanwhile, the already established companies were forging ahead.
FLORENCE LAWRENCE, HARRY SALTER,
MACK SENNETT (extreme right) IN
"THE SLAVE"
FLORENCE LAWRENCE FILMS BOTTOM: WITH OWEN MOORE
JAMES KIRKWOOD ABOVE: MARION LEONARD
DAVID MILES, MARY PICKFORD IN "THE VIOLIN
MAKER OF CREMONA"
TOP: BILLY QUIRK, MARY PICKFORD IN
"THE HESSIAN RENEGADES"
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