The American Film Manufacturing Company, also known as Flying “A” Studios, was an American motion picture production company. In 1915, the formal name was changed to the American Film Company.
Samuel S. Hutchinson, president of the American Film Manufacturing Company
Postcard illustration of the company's building in Chicago
American Film Company plant in Santa Barbara, California
The Navy Recruiting Band at the entrance to the American Film Company in Santa Barbara, California, June 1919
The Motion Picture Patents Company, founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major American film companies and local f
American Film Manufacturing Company
…California. California was chosen as the unit's final destination for its sunny weather, and to avoid the constraints of the "Edison Trust" (i.e., The Motion Picture Patents Company or MPPC) operating in Chicago and New York. The third unit eventually settled in the town of La Mesa, twelve miles inland from San Diego, from August…
Thomas Edison with the licensees of the Motion Picture Patents Company (December 20, 1909)
Several films in production c. 1907
Nestor Studio, Hollywood's first movie studio, 1912