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7 unusual facts about Biograph Company


Biograph

An early form of the cinematograph, made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928

Biograph girl

Biograph Girl was a phrase associated with two early-20th-century actresses, Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford, who made black-and-white silent films with Biograph Studios (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company).

Elias Bernard Koopman

Elias Bernard Koopman (1860 – August 23, 1929) was a founder of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Lottie Pickford

Mary signed with D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company in 1909 and also secured work for her siblings.

Phantom ride

The Haverstraw Tunnel, released in 1897 by the American Mutoscope Company, is considered to be the first example of a phantom ride.

Phoenicia Railroad Station

In 1906 it was used as a location by Biograph for Holdup of the Rocky Mountain Express, an early nickelodeon film shot on paper, since transferred to film by the Library of Congress.

William Kennedy Dickson

With the Lathams, Dickson was part of the group that formed the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, before he returned permanently to work in the United Kingdom in 1897.



see also

Biograph

Biograph Studios, a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company in the Bronx, New York

Koopman

Elias Bernard Koopman (1860–1929), founder of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company