Showing posts with label Charles Urban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Urban. Show all posts

Friday, August 4, 2023

Films 12 Cents (A Foot) -- August 4, 2023

New York Clipper, 18-April-1903

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was an early American producer and manufacturer. You could by a new Mutoscope, a coin-in-the-slot machine, for $45, "new machines, shining like silver."

Biograph offered its own productions, many made at the famous studio at 11 East 14th Street in Manhattan. They also carried Star Films produced by Georges Méliès in France and British films made by Charles Urban's Warwick Trading Company. 

Motion Picture News, 11-August-1923


Saturday, October 2, 2021

Mutoscopes and Films -- October 2, 2021

New York Clipper, 05-September-1903

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company offered Mutoscope devices and also standard films, including some produced in Britain by Charles Urban and Cecil Hepworth. Anna Held, shown viewing a Mutoscope, was a musical performer who was heavily promoted by her common-law husband Flo Ziegfeld.