When the movies were young (1925)

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Record Details:

Title:
When the movies were young
Date:
1925
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Company
Volume:
When the movies were young
Leaf #:
000232
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 26, 2024
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CHAPTER XXIII THE FIRST TWO-REELER 'T^HOUGH the licensed picture companies — The General * Film Group — kept a watchful eye on one another, each had pride in its own trademark and was satisfied with the little company of actors bringing it recognition. But the independent companies, now beginning to loom on the horizon, were looking with envying eyes on the rich harvest the licensed companies were reaping, and they figured that all they'd need, to do as well, would be some of their well-trained actors, especially those of Mr. Griffith's quite famous little organization. Surely D. W. Griffith had less to do with Mary Pickford's success than Mary Pickford herself! She it was the public came to see; so they were out, red-hot for Mary, and offering publicity and more money. The little war was started. Actors in the companies that comprised the General Film Company could not be bargained for except by the Independents. For instance, if an actor of the Biograph Company were discovered offering his services to Lubin or Edison or any of the General Film, that company promptly reported the matter to Biograph and the ambitious actor found himself not only turned down by Edison or Lubin or any other but his nice little Biograph job would be gone as well. That had happened to Harry Salter and Florence 190