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...earned a breakthrough $500,000 by putting up $50,000 for a lopsided 90% of the New England ticket sales on the first movie blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation. Now ready to produce his own pictures, he inveigled a popular actress, Anita Stewart, into breaking her contract with Vitagraph, and in 1918-19 starred her in a series of teary films at the modest studio leased from the Selig Zoo in downtown Los Angeles, where my father B.P. Schulberg joined him in the now vanished Mayer-Schulberg Studio...
...Radio Pictures, Inc.; Loew's Inc.; 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Balaban & Katz Corp.; Vitagraph, Inc.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.; Warner Bros. Theatres...
...foundering Lusitania in their eagerness to get at U.S. Red Cross nurses. Such films were reportedly shown on hospital ceilings and in rude theaters 90 ft. under the blasts of Verdun. It is hardly surprising that veterans turn up, now & then, who remember dugouts gratefully named Keystone Kottage, Vitagraph Village...
Died. James Stuart Blackton, 66, one of the first large-scale cinema producers; of auto-accident injuries; in Hollywood. With a partner he organized Vitagraph in 1897. The firm was sold to Warners in 1925 for a reported $1,000,000. Blackton went on relief...
...late Cartoonist McCay won a dinner from skeptical George McManus and the late Cartoonist Clare Briggs when, after early experiments with a short Little Nemo film, in 1909 at the old Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn he projected Gertie, The Dinosaur, a 1,000-ft. animated cartoon. To make it he spent $50,000, took over a year to draw and film 10,000 pictures...