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Champion Film Company

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The Champion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M. Dintenfass. It was the first film production company to establish itself in the area around Fort Lee, New Jersey. The studio was one of the film companies that merged to form Universal Pictures.[1]

In its four years of activity, put on the catalog over two hundred films, specializing initially in the western genre and in the historical reconstruction of military episodes of the American Civil War or revolution. Later, he produced numerous drama films, documentaries and some movies related to famous people, such as the aviators Blanche Scott and Robert G. Fowler.

It was the first company that built its studios in the vicinity.of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a place that would become a magnet for the independent film industry of the era and had been used for the first time as a set of film in 1907 by the Kalem Company. Dintenfass had the theaters laid in Coytesville, a remote area north of Fort Lee, to make them look as little like a studio as possible. He tried to escape the investigators of Thomas Alva Edison, always looking for the "pirates" who escaped the rigid conditions posed by the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), the monopoly of the sector that imposed, between the other, to use only the technical material (film cameras, film, etc.) that was to be provided exclusively by the trust.[2]

To circumvent the MPPC, the independents - including Dintenfass - distributed their films through the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company of Carl Laemmle. Which, in 1912, decided to unite all the small independent companies into a single production company that included its Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP). One of the partners of the new company was Dintenfass and the Champion was so absorbed by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, the future Universal Pictures, which started to become one of the Hollywood majors [2].

In the Champion films John G. Adolfi, Irving Cummings, Jeanie Macpherson appeared.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry". Arcadia Publishing. August 19, 2006 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Fort Lee Film Commission  |  Fort Lee, NJ". web.archive.org. April 5, 2011. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 25 (help)
  3. ^ "IMDb: With Champion Film Company (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-03-04.


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