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The Lubin Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture production company that produced silent films from 1896 to 1916. Lubin films were distributed with a Liberty Bell trademark.
Lubin Studios open-air set on the roof of the building in Philadelphia, 1899
"A Corner of the Assembling and Joining Room at the Philadelphia Studio of the Lubin Company", The Photoplay Author, 1914
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
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…that saw repeated lawsuits brought against Lubin for patent infringement. Eventually, Lubin gave up the costly fight with Edison and became part of the Motion Picture Patents Company, a monopoly on production and distribution set up by Edison. In 1915, the Lubin company entered into an agreement to form a film distribution partnership…
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