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Biograph Company

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The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. [1]

100 relations: African Americans, Alan Hale Sr., American Film Institute, Berkeley, California, Billboard (magazine), Billy Bitzer, Biograph Studios, Biograph Theater, Blanche Sweet, Broadway (Manhattan), Cinema of the United States, Consolidated Film Industries, Cross-cutting, D. W. Griffith, Documentary film, Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Gish, Echo Park, Los Angeles, Edison's Black Maria, Elias Bernard Koopman, Empire State Express, Encyclopædia Britannica, Essanay Studios, Europe, Fade (lighting), Feature film, Film, Film director, Flashback (narrative), Florence Auer, French Third Republic, Genre, George Eastman Museum, George Kleine, Georges Méliès, Google Books, Harry Carey (actor), Henry B. Walthall, Herbert Yates, Herman Casler, History of film, Hollywood, In Old California (1910 film), Iris Barry, Jefferson, North Carolina, Judith of Bethulia, Kalem Company, Kinetoscope, Klaw and Erlanger, Lanham, Maryland, ..., Lillian Gish, Lime Kiln Field Day, Lionel Barrymore, List of Biograph films released in 1909, List of Biograph films released in 1910, List of Live-action film production companies, List of motion picture film formats, List of numbered streets in Manhattan, Los Angeles Convention Center, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Mae Marsh, Manhattan, Mary Pickford, Motion Picture Patents Company, Museum of Modern Art, Mutoscope, New Jersey, New York City, New York University Press, Pathé, Profit sharing, Ramona (1910 film), Robert G. Vignola, Robert Harron, Rowman & Littlefield, Rutgers University, Selig Polyscope Company, SF Studios, Silent film, Simon & Schuster, Star system (filmmaking), Sweden, The Bronx, The New York Times, Thomas Edison, UFA GmbH, Union Square, Manhattan, United States, United States antitrust law, University of California, University of California Press, Vitagraph Studios, Weimar culture, West Coast of the United States, West Orange, New Jersey, William Kennedy Dickson, 14th Street (Manhattan), 35 mm film. Expand index (50 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alan Hale Sr.

Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billy Bitzer

Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) was a pioneering American cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith.

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Biograph Studios

Biograph Studios was an early film studio and laboratory complex, built in 1912 by the Biograph Company at 807 East 175th Street, in The Bronx, New York City, New York.

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Biograph Theater

The Biograph Theater, at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, near Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions.

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Blanche Sweet

Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.

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Broadway (Manhattan)

Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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Consolidated Film Industries

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades.

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Cross-cutting

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same place.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern cinematic techniques.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dorothy Davenport

Fannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer.

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Echo Park, Los Angeles

Echo Park is a densely populated neighborhood of 43,000+ residents in Central Los Angeles.

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Edison's Black Maria

The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie production studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

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Elias Bernard Koopman

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

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Empire State Express

The Empire State Express was one of the named passenger trains and onetime flagship of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (a predecessor of the later New York Central Railroad).

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fade (lighting)

In stage lighting, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease of the intensity of light projected onto the stage.

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Feature film

A feature film is a film (also called a motion picture or movie) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Florence Auer

Florence Auer (March 3, 1880 – May 14, 1962) was an American theater and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five decades.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 1870 when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War until 1940 when France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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George Eastman Museum

The George Eastman Museum, the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.

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George Kleine

George Kleine (1864 - 8 June 1931) was an American film producer and cinema pioneer.

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Georges Méliès

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Harry Carey (actor)

Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars.

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Henry B. Walthall

Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor.

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Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates (August 24, 1880 – February 3, 1966) was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, who had John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers in their pictures.

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Herman Casler

Herman Casler (March 12, 1867 in Sandwich, Illinois – July 20, 1939 in Canastota, New York) an American inventor, was co-founder of the partnership called the K.M.C.D. Syndicate, along with W.K-L. Dickson, Elias Koopman, and Henry Marvin, which eventually was incorporated into the American Mutoscope Company in December 1895.

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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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In Old California (1910 film)

In Old California is a silent movie filmed in 1910.

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Iris Barry

Iris Barry (1895 – 1969) was a film critic and curator.

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Jefferson, North Carolina

Jefferson is a town in Ashe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Judith of Bethulia

Judith of Bethulia (1914) is a film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play of the same name by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

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Kalem Company

The Kalem Company was an early American film studio founded in New York City in 1907.

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Kinetoscope

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device.

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Klaw and Erlanger

Klaw and Erlanger were a theatrical production duo based out of New York City during the early 1900s.

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Lanham, Maryland

Lanham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer.

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Lime Kiln Field Day

Lime Kiln Field Day, also known as Lime Kiln Club Field Day or Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Field Day, is a 1913 American black-and-white silent film, and produced by the Biograph Company and Klaw and Erlanger.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.

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List of Biograph films released in 1909

This is a list of all 142 Biograph films released in 1909.

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List of Biograph films released in 1910

This is a list of all 113 Biograph films released in 1910.

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List of Live-action film production companies

This is a list of film filmmaking, film distribution companies.

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List of motion picture film formats

This list of film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX HD format.

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List of numbered streets in Manhattan

The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets numbered from 1st to 228th, the majority of them created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

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Los Angeles Convention Center

The Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles.

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Lubin Manufacturing Company

The Lubin Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture production company that produced silent films from 1896 to 1916.

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Mabel Normand

Mabel Ethelreid Normand (November 10, 1893 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent-film actress, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American film director and producer, known as the King of Comedy.

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Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh, November 9, 1894U.S. Census records for 1900, El Paso, Texas, Sheet No. 6 – February 13, 1968) was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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Motion Picture Patents Company

The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and terminated seven years later in 1915 after conflicts within the industry, was a trust of all the major USA film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé), the leading film distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Mutoscope

The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, invented by W.K.L. Dickson and Herman Casler and later patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University Press

New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.

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Pathé

Pathé or Pathé Frères (styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896.

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Profit sharing

Profit sharing refers to various incentive plans introduced by businesses that provide direct or indirect payments to employees that depend on company's profitability in addition to employees' regular salary and bonuses.

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Ramona (1910 film)

Ramona is a 1910 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. Through a love story, the early silent short explores racial injustice to Native Americans and stars Mary Pickford and Henry B. Walthall.

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Robert G. Vignola

Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema.

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Robert Harron

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Harron (April 12, 1893 – September 5, 1920) was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Selig Polyscope Company

The Selig Polyscope Company is an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago.

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SF Studios

SF Studios is a Swedish film production company, distributor (both Swedish and international) and movie theatre chain, currently owned by the Bonnier Group.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Star system (filmmaking)

The star system was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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UFA GmbH

UFA GmbH is a German film and television production company that unites all production activities of Bertelsmann in Germany.

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Union Square, Manhattan

Union Square is an important and historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century; its name denotes that "here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island" rather than celebrating either the Federal union of the United States or labor unions.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States antitrust law

United States antitrust law is a collection of federal and state government laws that regulates the conduct and organization of business corporations, generally to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers.

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University of California

The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the US state of California.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Vitagraph Studios

Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio.

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Weimar culture

Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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West Orange, New Jersey

West Orange is a suburban township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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William Kennedy Dickson

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).

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14th Street (Manhattan)

14th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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35 mm film

35 mm film (millimeter) is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography (see 135 film).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biograph_Company

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