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Mirror Films
Mirror Films Incorporated was a short-lived motion picture company producing films from late 1915 to early 1917. Their stated purpose was to bring business practices to bear on motion picture production in order to make a profit, to "look upon film...as so much canned product". Company Founding Mirror Films Inc. was incorporated on September 23, 1915. Founders included Clifford Harmon, W.C. Toomey, Frank Hastings (treasurer), Abraham Archibald Anderson, Richard G. Hollaman, Harry Rowe Shelley, John W. Houston, Joseph Howland Hunt (brother/partner of Richard Howland Hunt), Andres de Segurola, and others. Captain Harry Lambart, formerly a director at Vitagraph, was retained as director-general in charge of productions. The company's offices were located at 16 East 42nd Street in New York City. Formation of the company was announced in October 1915. This was followed by an extensive print advertising campaign to raise capital through sales of stock in the company. Approximately $5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror Films Inc
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Breach Of Contract
Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance. Breach occurs when a party to a contract fails to fulfill its obligation(s), whether partially or wholly, as described in the contract, or communicates an intent to fail the obligation or otherwise appears not to be able to perform its obligation under the contract. Where there is breach of contract, the resulting damages have to be paid to the aggrieved party by the party breaching the contract. If a contract is rescinded, parties are legally allowed to undo the work unless doing so would directly charge the other party at that exact time. It is important to bear in mind that contract law is not the same from country to country. Each country has its own independent, freestanding law of contract. Therefore, it makes sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Square Garden (1890)
Madison Square Garden (1890–1926) was an indoor arena in New York City, the second by that name, and the second and last to be located at 26th Street (Manhattan), 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Opened in 1890 at the cost of about $500,000, it replaced the Madison Square Garden (1879), first Madison Square Garden, and hosted numerous events, including boxing matches, orchestral performances, light operas and romantic comedies, the annual French Ball, both the P. T. Barnum#Circus king, Barnum and the Ringling Brothers Circus, Ringling circuses, and the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which nominated John W. Davis after 103 ballots. The building closed in 1925, and was replaced by the Madison Square Garden (1925), third Madison Square Garden at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street, which was the first to be located away from Madison Square. History Madison Square Garden II, as it has come to be called in retrospect, was designed by noted architect Stanford White, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutual Film Corporation
Mutual Film Corporation was an early American film conglomerate that produced some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies. Founded in 1912, it was absorbed by Film Booking Offices of America, which evolved into RKO Pictures. Founding Mutual's predecessor film businesses began with the partnership behind the Western Film Exchange, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in July 1906. The partnership included Harry E. Aitken, Roy Aitken, and John R. Freuler. In 1910, Freuler also formed a partnership with Chicago film distributor Samuel S. Hutchinson, establishing a production entity known as the American Film Manufacturing Company. In early 1912 the Shallenberger brothers (Wilbert E. and William Edgar), Crawford Livingston, and others as investors including Charles J. Hite, the President & CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation, joined Freuler and Harry E. Aitken in the formation of Mutual Film. Mutual Film Corporation was formed in 1912 by a group of American businessmen including Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wall Street Tragedy
''A Wall Street Tragedy'' is a lost 1916 silent film drama directed by Lawrence Marston and starring Nat C. Goodwin. It was released by the Mutual Film Company.(Wayback) Cast *Nat C. Goodwin - Norton * Richard Neill - Ranson *Mabel Wright - Mrs. Norton *Mary Norton - Lois Norton *Zola Telmzart - Yvette *J. Cooper Willis - "The Rat" *Clifford Grey Clifford Grey (5 January 1887 – 25 September 1941) was an English songwriter, librettist, actor and screenwriter. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray. Grey contributed prolifically to West End and Br ... - Roy Simms References External links * * 1916 films American silent feature films Lost American films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1916 drama films 1916 lost films Lost drama films Films directed by Lawrence Marston 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Johnson (screenwriter)
Adrian Johnson was a prolific screenwriter during the silent film era. Johnson wrote some of Fox Film's highest grossing films. More than a dozen starred Theda Bara. His screenplay for '' Cleopatra (1917 film)'' depicted Antony and Cleopatra's love affair from the perspective of Hamarachi. He copyrighted and sold an Adrian Johnson Photoplay System that brought "the fascinating profitable profession of screen writing to the very door of the person of average intelligence." The course included 20 lessons and a dictionary of terms. It promised to "make failire impossible." Filmography *''Romeo and Juliet'' (1916) *'' The Tiger Woman'' (1917) *''Madame DuBarry'' (1917) *''Cleopatra'' (1917) *'' Salomé'' (1918) *''The Soul of Buddha'' (1918) *''The Forbidden Path'' (1918) *'' Checkers'' (1919) *''When Men Desire'' (1919), adaptation of a J. Searle Dawley James Searle Dawley (October 4, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Phillips
Augustus Phillips (August 1, 1874 – September 29, 1944), was an American actor. He appeared in 134 films between 1910 and 1921. After 11 years of performing in stock theater, vision problems led Phillips to begin acting in films for the Edison Company on January 1, 1911. He appeared in J. Searle Dawley's 1910 production of ''Frankenstein'', playing Victor Frankenstein, as a young medical student. He was born in Rensselaer, Indiana, and died in London, England. Selected filmography *''Frankenstein'' (1910) *''Pigs Is Pigs'' (1910) *''A Soldier's Duty'' (1912) *'' The Shadow on the Blind'' (1912) *'' The Gates of Eden'' (1916) * '' The Innocence of Ruth'' (1916) *'' Aladdin’s Other Lamp'' (1917) *'' The Mortal Sin'' (1917) *''God's Law and Man's'' (1917) * ''Threads of Fate'' (1917) *'' Miss Robinson Crusoe'' (1917) *'' Lady Barnacle'' (1917) *'' Daybreak'' (1918) *'' The Brass Check'' (1918) *'' Peggy Does Her Darndest'' (1919) *'' The Grim Game'' (1919) *''Toby's Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Melford
Mark Melford (c.1850 - 4 January 1914) born in Fareham, Hampshire, was a British "dramatic author, actor and variety artiste". His career encompassed the era of the late Victorian farce, the music halls and early British cinema. Mark Melford was a prolific playwright and wrote not only dramas, farces, melodramas and comic sketches, but also a musical drama, and a comic opera. He was also an accomplished comic actor often taking the leading role in his own works. As a playwright, the genre in which he was most prolific was farce; Jeffrey H. Huberman in his ''Late Victorian Farce'' writes that Mark Melford wrote and had produced more full-length original farces than any other Victorian playwright.Huberman, Jeffrey H. ''Late Victorian Farce'' Michigan:UMI Research Press 1986 The hand-list of plays in Allardyce Nicoll's six-volume ''A History of English Drama, 1660-1900'' lists thirty nine works by Mark Melford up to 1900. From 1912 onwards he also wrote, directed, and acted in many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Bloomer
Raymond Bloomer (December 9, 1886 – November 1, 1948), was an American actor. He appeared in 22 films between 1913 and 1927. Filmography External links * * * American male film actors American male silent film actors Male actors from New York (state) 1886 births 1948 deaths 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyright registration, but the Librarian of Congress was not required to retain those copies: "Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority is granted for the return to the claimant of copyright of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library." A report created by Library of Congress film historian and archivist David Pierce claims: * 75% of original silent-era films have perished. * 14% of the 10,919 silent films released by major studios exist in their original 35 mm or other formats. * 11% survive only in full-length foreign versions or film formats of lesser image quality. Of the American sound films made from 1927 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marriage Bond (1916 Film)
''The Marriage Bond'' is a lost 1916 silent film drama directed by Lawrence Marston and starring Nat C. Goodwin. It was released on a State Rights basis. Wayback) Cast *Nat C. Goodwin
Nathaniel Carl "Nat" Goodwin (July 25, 1857 – January 31, 1919) was an American actor and vaudevillian born in Boston.
Life and career
While clerk in a large shop Goodwin studied for the stage and made his first appearance in 1874 at the Howa ... - John Harwood
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