Motion picture exhibition, distribution and production
Founded
1897; 127 years ago (1897)
Defunct
1925; 99 years ago (1925)
Fate
Acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Subsequently folded into Warner Bros.
Successor
The Vitaphone Corporation
Headquarters
United States
Products
Motion pictures, film distribution
Parent
Independent (1914–1925) Warner Bros. (1925)
William T. Rock, Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton, 1916
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films.[1] It was bought by Warner Bros. in 1925.
^Eilseen Bowser, The Transformation of Cinema 1907–1915, University of California Press, 1990, p. 23. ISBN 0-520-08534-5.
VitagraphStudios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and...
List of feature films produced by VitagraphStudios between 1914 and 1925, when it was absorbed into Warner Bros. The company also produced numerous short...
The Chalice of Courage is a 1915 silent film made by VitagraphStudios. Based on the novel The Chalice of Courage: a Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend...
California. In 1916, she signed a contract with VitagraphStudios, appearing in numerous films for the studio through the remainder of the decade. In 1920...
Biograph, Essanay Studios, Kalem Company, George Kleine Productions, Lubin Studios, Georges Méliès, Pathé, Selig Studios, and VitagraphStudios, and dominated...
at Vitagraph film studios, married to Lucille Lee, arranged for the teen-aged Stuart to appear as a juvenile extra at their New York City studio location...
actor, but transitioned to a film career after joining VitagraphStudios around 1910. At Vitagraph, Bunny made over 150 short films – many of them domestic...
entered into an agreement, in a last-ditch effort to save the studio, with VitagraphStudios, Lubin Manufacturing Company, and Selig Polyscope Company to...
as a subsidiary. Film studios also create television programs for broadcast syndication. Film producer List of animation studios List of documentary films...
in show business. Howard started off running unpaid errands at the VitagraphStudios in Midwood, Brooklyn and was rewarded with bit parts in movies in...
(1914) is a silent film directed by Sidney Drew and released by the Vitagraphstudio. The feature-length comedy/fantasy was shot in and around St. Augustine...
daughter traveled to VitagraphStudios in Flatbush, New York, just a streetcar ride from her home. They managed to get past the studio gates and in to see...
who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the VitagraphStudios film company. The vast majority of her films from the silent era are...
attention. When the drawings were finished, they were photographed at VitagraphStudios in early 1914. McCay pioneered the "McCay Split System" of animation...
around 1903, when it served as a studio and backlot for Vitagraph and Florence Turner, its first Vitagraph girl. Vitagraph's main Brooklyn facility was located...
the apartment building in 1931 to Albert E. Smith, co-founder of VitagraphStudios, for $750,000 in cash (equivalent to $15,030,000 in 2023). Smith converted...
facilities, first in Florida and then in California. Kalem was sold to VitagraphStudios in 1917. The Kalem Company was founded by George Kleine, Samuel Long...
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used consistently from 1908 onwards, such as in Vitagraph's An Auto Heroine; or, The Race for the Vitagraph Cup and How It Was Won. The dialogue was eventually...
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