Francis Boggs
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Francis Winter Boggs was an American stage actor and pioneer silent film director. He was one of the first to direct a film in Hollywood.
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Francis Boggs, with his back to the camera, directs a scene for The Girls of the Range, 1910
Boggs' grave at Graceland Cemetery
Edendale, Los Angeles
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Edendale is a historical name for a district in Los Angeles, California, northwest of downtown Los Angeles, in what is known today as Echo Park, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. In the opening decades of th
Francis Boggs
…The Heart of a Race Tout (1909), the first films made entirely in California. Boggs later returned to Los Angeles and rented a small bungalow in the Edendale district as a permanent base from which he operated a West Coast satellite studio for Selig. Other East Coast studios soon began filming on the West…
Selig Polyscope Company studio ca. 1910
"Scenes from the Selig Zoo," July 1915
Keystone studios in 1915