Biograph Company studio with D. W. Griffith

Biograph Company

The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over three thousand short films and twelve feature films.^[2]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biograph Company
• Blum, H., 2009, American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-making, and the Crime of the Century: Thorndike Press, 509p.