Selig Polyscope Company

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The first permanent movie studio in Los Angeles was first located here but has been raised.

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Selig Polyscope Company

Selig Polyscope Company

The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois. Selig Polyscope is noted for establishing Southern California's first permanent movie studio, in the historic Edendale district of Los Angeles. The company produced hundreds of early, widely distributed commercial moving pictures, including the first films starring Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Colleen Moore, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The business gradually became a struggling zoo attraction in East Los Angeles, having ended film production in 1918.^[2]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selig Polyscope Company
Page 46 - Bahn, P., 2014, The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 166p.

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