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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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    In 1896, Selig created one of the first film production companies, Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago. He produced a string of commercially successful...
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    with Selig he co-starred in several films with Victoria Forde, and they fell in love. He divorced Olive Stokes in 1917. By then, Selig Polyscope had encountered...
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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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    In early 1910 Mix agreed to work as an actor and wrangler for the Selig Polyscope Company. Mix alternated between working in films and in Wild West shows...
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  • Polyscope may refer to: Polyscope Productions Ltd., Canadian motion picture company Selig Polyscope Company, early American motion picture company Polyscope...
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  • master producer expressly for the motion picture camera." In 1909, the Selig-Polyscope Company established the first permanent Los Angeles motion picture...
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    1912 silent film short directed by Colin Campbell. It was produced by Selig Polyscope Company. The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection...
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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 a contractual...
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    Kirkland from December 1912. The now lost film was distributed by the Selig Polyscope Company. The Mullins' situation is bleak. The couple sits at an empty...
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    Arabia The Equine Detective (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    Arabia, Thomas Carrigan and Lillian Logan. It was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company. Arabia, The Human Horse - a horse Thomas Carrigan - Bob Collins...
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    American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with...
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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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    and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé)...
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    American film director. Green entered film in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Company. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell. He then...
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    Produced in Chicago by Selig Polyscope Company, the motion picture was directed by Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson. It was among some Selig pictures in this...
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  • The Man from Texas (1915 film) (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    digitally remastered. It was shot near Prescott, Arizona by William Selig of the Selig Polyscope Company. Tom Mix as Texas Ed Brady (uncredited) Goldie Colwell...
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    Angeles because of the region's favorable year-round weather. The 1908 Selig Polyscope Company production of The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Francis...
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  • Briton and Boer (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    and Boer is a 1909 American silent film produced and distributed by Selig Polyscope Company. The film is set at the outset of the Boer War, beginning at...
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  • studio. The company leased the Los Angeles Edendale studio of the Selig Polyscope Company until its own studio, located at Western Avenue and Sunset...
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    Productions. Darkfeather made movies for Bison starting in 1909, the Selig Polyscope Company between 1909 and 1913, Nestor Studios in 1912 and for Kalem...
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    publications as a "Los Angeles product" and "the youngest member of the Selig Polyscope Company of players". In its April 23 issue that year, The Photoplayers'...
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    Vitagraph. Duncan worked with major studios of the day, including the Selig Polyscope Company and Vitagraph. As was typical of many early films, especially...
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    film's slates as "Zulus." Quick to cash in on the media frenzy, the Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago released a fake documentary that it had shot at...
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  • In the Long Ago (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    silent film short directed by Colin Campbell. It was produced by the Selig Polyscope company and released by the General Film Company. Alternately the film...
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  • Something Good – Negro Kiss (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    Lumière cinématographe camera to shoot Something Good. Selig distributed the Selig Polyscope Company film through the Sears & Roebuck mail order catalog...
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    under her arm, Colin Campbell arranged for her to get a contract with Selig Polyscope. She was very likely at work on A Hoosier Romance before The Savage...
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    were, Ishi seemed to deal with them just fine. Selig Polyscope Company (April 15, 1915). "Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 30". IMDb. Archived from the...
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    of the print spread to other firms, and by 1904 Siegmund Lubin, the Selig Polyscope Company, and Edison were all redistributing it. Edison's print of the...
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  • The Fire Chief's Daughter (category Selig Polyscope Company films)
    Francis Boggs and starring Kathlyn Williams. It was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company and released by the General Film Company. Kathlyn Williams...
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