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3 unusual facts about Norman Studios


Norman Studios

During its run it produced eight feature length films and numerous shorts; its only surviving film, The Flying Ace, has been restored by the Library of Congress.

In 1917, John W. Martin was elected mayor of Jacksonville on an anti-film campaign intending to curb the wild excesses of the film industry.

Later films produced by Norman Studios include The Love Bug (1919); The Bull-Dogger (1921), a western; The Crimson Skull (1922), another western; Regeneration (1923), an action adventure set on an island after a shipwreck; The Flying Ace (1926), Norman’s most famous film; and Black Gold (1928), a drama set around the oil business.



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