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    William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a vaudeville performer and pioneer of the American motion picture industry. His stage billing...
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    The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois. The company produced...
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  • community in the United States Selig Polyscope Company, an American motion picture company founded by William Selig Selig's Wild Animal Farm (~1912–1914)...
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    Allan Huber "Bud" Selig (/ˈsiːlɪɡ/; born July 30, 1934) is an American baseball executive who currently serves as the Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball...
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  • Wendy Selig-Prieb (born 1960), American businesswoman, president of the Milwaukee Brewers organisation and daughter of Bud Selig William Selig (1864–1948)...
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  • Life Tom 2019 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Lou Senior Love Triangle William Selig 2020 Fully Realized Humans Richard 2023 We Have a Ghost Ernest Scheller...
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  • William Selig in Chicago, and it was his associate, Francis Boggs who first established the Los Angeles studio in Edendale. Within a few years, Selig...
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  • Something Good – Negro Kiss (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    as impromptu. The film was made in Chicago by director and producer William Selig, a film pioneer, who also had prior experience with staged minstrel...
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    Dream (1912) For the Papoose (1912) Circumstantial Evidence (1912), William Selig, Selig Polyscope Company A Christmas Accident (1912) Out of the Deep End...
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    The Selig Zoo in Los Angeles, California was an early 20th century animal collection managed by Col. W.N. Selig for use in Selig Polyscope Company films...
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  • included The Devil's Castle, A Nightmare, A Terrible Night. William Selig founds the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago. Demeny-Gaumont work on a 60 mm...
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    United States, where such producers as Thomas Edison, Siegmund Lubin and William Selig had produced illegal copies and made large amounts of money from them...
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    Elinor Field, Truman Van Dyke and Marie Pavis. A co-production by William N. Selig Productions and Warner Bros., it was distributed by the Export & Import...
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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 film) (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film was made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum's direct input. It was created to fulfill...
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    Hepner. Shoes by Marshall Field & Co. Jewels loaned by C.D. Peacock. The Selig Polyscope Company was involved in the production of the films. This led...
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    per square mile in Silver Lake than in other parts of Los Angeles. William Selig set up what may have been the first permanent film studio in Los Angeles...
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  • events. Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent film studio in Los Angeles...
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    1916 Gallup's financial backer George Fabyan was sued by film producer William Selig. He argued that Fabyan's advocacy of Bacon threatened the profits expected...
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    called publicly for Selig to step down as commissioner, citing his "glacial response" to the "growing stain on baseball". Selig pledged on numerous occasions...
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  • production center, thanks in large part to the move of film pioneers like William Selig and D.W. Griffith to the area. These factors quickly sealed the demise...
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  • (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composer (private vault) William Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio owner Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), actress...
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    National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA. It was produced by William Selig and directed by Giles R. Warren. Gilson Willets wrote the script. Motography...
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    of film producer William Selig; Big Otto's wild animals became the core of the Selig Zoo. According to an interview with William Selig published in 1928...
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    offer from Selig to return to acting in films as part of a production unit in Prescott, Arizona, until the supervision of actor-director William Duncan....
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  • Griffith Funeral Of Edward VII The Ghost in the Oven, produced by William Selig The Ghost of Mudtown (French/ Pathe) The Golden Beetle (French/British...
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  • Christian Andersen – (GB) Ringling Brothers Parade Film, produced by William Selig – (US) Snow White, produced by Siegmund Lubin, based on the 1812 fairy...
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  • The Tramp and the Dog (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    to be the first commercial production of American film pioneer William Selig at Selig Polyscope. It is also likely the first commercial narrative film...
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    Satie Arnold Schoenberg Jean Schwartz James Scott Alexander Scriabin William Selig Chris Smith Harry B. Smith Ethel Smyth John Philip Sousa George Kirke...
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    Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him....
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    circuses, vaudeville and film. She starred in very early animal films for Selig Polyscope, and was said (perhaps hyperbolically) to have handled animals...
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