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    Solax Studios was an American motion-picture studio founded in 1910 by executives from the Gaumont Film Company of France. Alice Guy-Blaché, her husband...
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    artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York. In 1912, Solax invested $100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center...
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    founded the world's oldest operating film studio, Gaumont Film Company, and worked in partnership with Solax Studios. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born in Paris was...
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  • American silent short film by Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios. Starring Solax stock actors, the story concerns a child's earnest effort to...
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  • as a subsidiary. Film studios also create television programs for broadcast syndication. Film producer List of animation studios List of documentary films...
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    Goldwyn Pictures rented production facilities from Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were...
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    credited as "The Solax Kid", was a child actor in the silent film era who worked for Solax Studio, the largest pre-Hollywood studio in the United States...
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    Metro Pictures (redirect from Metro Studios)
    General Service Studios and Desilu Studios through the 1950s and 1960s. It became Ren-Mar Studios in 1974. In January 2010, Ren-Mar Studios was bought by...
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    serial The Perils of Pauline. He worked for Astra Film Co. and then Solax Studios in New Jersey. In 1918, he and his brother Bill founded the Motion Picture...
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    The Baseball Bug (1911) and The Poacher (1912). He worked briefly for Solax Studios, formed the short-lived Ryno Film Company with Clarkson Potter Ryttenberg...
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    Blaché directed her first film in 1896, La Fée aux Choux and founded Solax Studios in 1910. Over her lifetime, "she directed between 40 to 50 films and...
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    highwayman Willy Brennan, directed by Edward Warren and produced by the Solax Studios. It was distributed by Exclusive Supply Corporation. Print held by the...
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    pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché through her American company Solax Studios in 1913. Using Alice Guy-Blachè's adapted screenplay from the Edgar...
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  • Fraunie Fraunholz, Claire Whitney and Joseph Levering. It was produced by Solax Studios at Fort Lee, then picked up for release by William Fox's Box Office...
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    wrote for a number of periodicals. She starred in a number of films for Solax Studios and Metro Pictures, where she was usually given the role of a femme...
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    the pioneering French woman filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios. Originally advertised as "educational drama" or "educational subject...
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    1907 poem of the same name. It was produced by Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were...
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    performer Rodman Law and Claire Whitney. It was produced by the historic Solax Film Company. Some filming involving stuntman Law took place at the Williamsburg...
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  • film maker Alice Guy-Blaché. It was produced by Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were...
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  • 1924, his production company purchased the Solax Studios and renovated the two stages, and studios. The studio building was later destroyed in a fire. When...
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    A Florida Enchantment (category Vitagraph Studios films)
    the approach to cross-dressing, "transbodiment, and role reversal" in Solax Studios films. At the time of its release, Variety stated that the film should...
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    was appearing in Solax Studios productions. Both immediate before and after her only Thanhouser credit, Gibson was employed by Solax, leading Bowers to...
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    Algie, the Miner is a 1912 American silent Western film produced by Solax Studios. It was directed by Harry Schenck, Edward Warren, and Alice Guy and...
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  • Man is a 1911 silent film short directed by Alice Guy and produced by the Solax Company. It is preserved in the Library of Congress. This film was one of...
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    The Godmother for Vitagraph Studios in New York City. By 1917 he was a working consistently as an actor at Solax Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. His...
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    partnering with George A. Magie in the formation of The Solax Company, the largest pre-Hollywood studio in America. With production facilities for their new...
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    film is preserved at the BFI National Archive. The film was made at Solax Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Rags (Love), has found local success and acclaim...
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    best known for her work in the years 1911-1914 as a leading lady for Solax Studios and Alice Guy-Blaché; film's first female director and producer. Blanche...
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    abandoned American production in 1910. The Flushing studio then became the home of Solax Studios, a newly established silent film production company that...
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    Scarborough Starring Claire Whitney James O'Neill Production company Solax Studios Distributed by World Film Corporation Release date 1914 (1914) Country...
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