The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois. The company produced hundreds of early, widely distributed commercial
Surviving hand-tinted still from The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908), based on L. Frank Baum's Oz books
Selig studio facilities and extensive backlot in Chicago, 1911
Street view of Selig's studio in Edendale, c. 1910
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
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