Saturday, December 2, 2023

Lubin's New Improved Patent Film -- December 2, 2023

New York Clipper, 28-March-1903

The Lubin Manufacturing Company was a pioneering film production company founded in 1902 in Philadelphia by Siegmund Lubin. Lubin later produced movies in Jacksonville, Florida and Los Angeles, California.

The Oberammergau Passion Play is performed in the Bavarian village every ten years. The Passion Play became a hot topic and several producers made adaptions. Lubin's was made in 1900.

In 1899, Jim Jeffries defeated Bob Fitzsimmons to take his heavyweight title. On 25-July-1902, they fought a rematch in San Francisco. Fitzsimmons broke Jeffries' nose, but Jeffries knocked him cold in the 8th.

San Francisco Examiner, 26-July-1922


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