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    The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It...
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    Company (later the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company), quickly dominated the coin-in-the-slot peep-show business. The Mutoscope works on the same...
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    until 1949. The mutoscope is a peep show-style movie viewer that was first manufactured by the American Mutoscope and Biograph company, and is notable for...
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  • period of about a month. Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company (often shortened to Biograph), it was filmed by F.S. Armitage. In 2002...
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    locations in Manhattan. The first studio of the Biograph Company, formerly American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was located just south of Union Square on...
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    American Mutoscope and Biograph Company working as editors for D.W. Griffith. James is credited in two films for acting early in his career and is also...
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  • Mary Gish and her daughters Lillian and Dorothy recognize their friend Gladys Smith in a film made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, they search...
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    Armitage for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company "Sex in Cinema: Pre-1920s Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes". www.filmsite...
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    Herman Casler (category 19th-century American inventors)
    viewers. Both the Mutoscope and Biograph had great success. The company name was changed to American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1899. Casler helped...
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    In Old California (1910 film) (category Biograph Company films)
    1910 American silent Western film. It was the first film shot in Hollywood, California. It was directed by D. W. Griffith of the American Mutoscope and Biograph...
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  • A Nymph of the Waves (category American black-and-white films)
    produced in the year 1900 by Frederick S. Armitage for American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Armitage's main claim to fame is film direction; but this...
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  • The Taming of the Shrew (1908 film) (category American black-and-white films)
    1908 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company of New York City. The 17-minute short, which...
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    Cakewalk (category African-American dance)
    American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1903. Prancing steps were the main steps shown in the "Cake Walk" segment, which featured two couples, and...
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  • Sherlock Holmes Baffled (category Biograph Company films)
    "baffled". The film was produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company and was intended to be shown on the Mutoscope, an early motion picture device...
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  • Kit Carson (1903 film) (category Biograph Company films)
    one of the earliest Western films, being released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903. (According to silentera.com, portions...
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  • Frederick S. Armitage (category American cinematographers)
    Michigan) was an early American motion picture cinematographer and director, working primarily for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Often identified...
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    The Call of the Wild (1908 film) (category American black-and-white films)
    Wild is a 1908 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The short, a...
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    Elias Bernard Koopman (category American business biography, 19th-century birth stubs)
    1929) was a founder of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. He was also a founder of The Magic Introduction Company. He later headed the Runsyne...
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    cinematography. 1897 saw the release of A Pillow Fight by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company followed by Pillow Fight from Edison Studios. In the same...
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    Square, San Francisco (motion picture). San Francisco: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Staff (January 24, 1902) "Graceful Figure Modeled in Clay"...
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    Sutro Baths (category Use American English from June 2017)
    American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The climax of the film The Lineup was shot at the ice skating rink in 1958. Scene from the film Harold and Maude...
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  • Chimmie Hicks at the Races (category Biograph Company films)
    the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company along with its sister film, Grapewin's Chimmie Hicks and the Rum Omelet, it was shot in September and October...
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    Braveheart (1925 film) (category American black-and-white films)
    film Strongheart directed by James Kirkwood Sr. and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. As described in a film magazine review, Braveheart...
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    The Invisible Fluid (category Biograph Company films)
    Invisible Fluid is a 1908 American silent science fiction comedy film produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company of New York, directed by...
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    The story the Biograph Told, also known as Caught by Moving Pictures is a 1904 American short silent comedy film directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. An...
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    William Kennedy Dickson (category British people of American descent)
    But Dickson soon parted company with them, to become part of the group that formed the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, returning permanently to...
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    Vitascope (category American inventions)
    which eventually became the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, soon became a major competitor to the Edison Company.[citation needed] During the...
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  • The Black Viper (category Biograph Company films)
    film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company which was based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning...
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  • Arrival of Tongkin Train (category Biograph Company films)
    The film was made by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. List of American films of 1901 American Mutoscope and Biograph Company "AFI|Catalog". Arrival...
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    2 A. M. in the Subway (category Biograph Company films)
    second-long comedy filmed, and probably directed, by Billy Bitzer on June 5, 1905 at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company's (AM&B) studio on 14th Street...
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