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“Maurice Costello, among the earliest of real stars of the screen, who set a precedent for actors at Vitagraph by being the first player to refuse to help the stage carpenters.”

“When Theodore Roosevelt forgot his promise to take a Selig camera on his African hunt, Colonel Selig nature-faked a screen version in his Chicago studio”

“‘The Raven,’ a production of Biograph‘s ‘golden age,’ with Herbert Yost in the leading — He concealed his identity from the shame of the cinema under the name of Barry O’Moore, then.”

Fred Ott‘s Sneeze, the first close-up ever made photographed by W.K.L. Dickson at the Edison “Black Maria” studio—at right—Annabelle-the-Dancer in the Serpentine, pictured by Edison for the Kinetoscope.

La vie du Christ. Alice Guy. 1906.

Biograph‘s forefathers, the first meeting of all the four members of the K.M.C.D. Syndicate,—left to right, H.N. Marvin, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Herman Casler and E.B. Koopman—when they posed on Casler’s lawn at Canastota, New York, September 22, 1895.