Essanay Studios
Film Production Company
Cedarbrook: Family friendly in Fremont...the railroad was there and the town was built around it, the district of Niles includes California's first silent film studio, Essanay, which produced some of Charlie Chaplin's short films in the early 1900s. Now listed on the... In this article: National Trust for Historic Preservation, Money Magazine, MapQuest, Google, Charlie Chaplin, and Essanay |
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Chicago Tribune | November 11, 2009
Lost Chicago-linked Chaplin film found
...British morale, combining stop-motion animation and outtakes and unused alternate shots from films Chaplin made for both Keystone and Essanay studios The hybrid, over which Chaplin apparently exercised no creative control, includes a shot...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, His New Job, Essanay, London, Chicago, Sausage, and Business partner
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Daily Mail | November 06, 2009
GBP3.20 battered tin bought on eBay reveals lost Chaplin film worth GBP40,000
...most famous figures to support the war.' David Robinson, author of Chaplin: His Life and Art, said that after Chaplin left Essanay the company tried to exploit footage of its former star. He says legal controversy created by Essanay adding...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Tin, EBay, Essanay, World War I, Oscars, Burlesque on Carmen, and David Robinson
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 06, 2009
Lost Charlie Chaplin film bought on eBay for 5
...Zeppelin airships flying over England during the First World War, and out-takes from three pictures that Chaplin shot with the film company Essanay, with whom the entertainer had a contract in 1914, before falling out. An animated scene shows...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, EBay, Sausage, Tin, First World War, and David Robinson
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New Kerala | November 05, 2009
Lost Chaplin film found in tin sold for 3.20 pounds on eBay!
...images of a Zeppelin attack in the First World War and a combination of Chaplin footage and animation. There is also a mention of the Essanay film company with which Chaplin was associated in 1914 before he ended his contract. The...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Tin, Essanay, EBay, First World War, and David Robinson
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Times Online | November 05, 2009
Lost Chaplin film for GBP3.20
...a contract in 1914, before falling out with the company Chaplin's biographer, David Robinson, believes Essanay tried to exploit film it had of Chaplin by adding extra footage. Chaplin then took legal action, which may explain why Charlie...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Essanay, Tin, First World War, David Robinson, and EBay
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | November 05, 2009
Lost Chaplin film discovered in $5 can bought on eBay
...over England during the First World War, as well as some very early stop-motion animation, and unknown outtakes of Chaplin films from three Essanay pictures including The Tramp. These have all been cut together into a six-minute movie that...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, A Jitney Elopement, EBay, Essanay, The Tramp, Sausage, and First World War
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Wikipedia | October 13, 2009
Max Linder
...he was seriously wounded. In 1916, the most popular comedian in the world was Charlie Chaplin. When Chaplin left his employer, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, for more money and independence, Essanay tried to replace him with...
In this article: Max Linder, Suicide, Charlie Chaplin, Paris, Essanay, France, Maurice Chevalier, World War I, and Gironde
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Wikipedia | October 03, 2009
Essanay Studios
...pioneering efforts with Essanay. Due to Chicago's seasonal weather patterns and the popularity of westerns, Essanay opened the Essanay-West studio in Niles, California in 1913. Until that point the Chicago studio, at 1345 W. Argyle...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Chicago, Broncho Billy Anderson, Ben Turpin, Niles, Michigan, The Tramp, and Max Linder
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Charlotte Burton
...lady in a film featuring Henry B. Wallace. She admitted that she was paid for ten weeks, at $200 per week, prior to being dumped by Essanay. Essanay executives claimed Charlotte automatically voided her contract when she refused the comedic...
In this article: Essanay, Mary Miles Minter, Charlotte Burton, California, and Jack Prescott
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Chicago Tribune | August 19, 2009
Thorough Chicago Film Tour showcases workaday slices of the city
...the African-American director who shot his first films in Chicago; and finds a moment for a jaunt down Argyle and a little background on Essanay Studios, which briefly was home to Charlie Chaplin and now houses St. Augustine College. The...
In this article: Chicago, Second City, St. Augustine College, North by Northwest, Charlie Chaplin, Jennifer Aniston, Oscar Micheaux, and James Caan
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The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was a motion picture studio founded on August 10, 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, IL by George K. Spoor and Broncho Billy Anderson under the name Essanay ("S and A"). It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.
Essanay was originally located at 496 Wells Street (modern numbering: 1300 N. Wells). Essanay's first film, "An Awful Skate, or The Hobo on Rollers," starring Ben Turpin (then the studio janitor), produced for only a couple hundred dollars, grossed several thousand dollars in release. The studio prospered and eventually moved to its more famous address at 1333-45 W. Argyle St.
Essanay produced silent films with such stars (and stars of the future) as Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson, Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Lester Cuneo, Virginia Valli, Edward Arnold, and Rod La Rocque. The mainstays of the organization, however, were studio co-owner G. M. Anderson, starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns, and Charlie Chaplin. Allan Dwan was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and went on to be a famous Hollywood director. Louella Parsons was also hired as a screenwriter and went on to be a Hollywood gossip columnist. Both George K. Spoor (in 1948) and Broncho Billy Anderson (in 1958) received Oscars, specifically Academy Honorary Awards, for their pioneering efforts with Essanay.
In addition to filming in Chicago, Essanay also used filming locations in Colorado and California, especially in the production of 376 "Broncho Billy" westerns.
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