The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

One-hour documentary recounts the untold story of the remarkable rise and fall of the Thanhouser Studio, one of American | dG1fbUtDV1ZBTFJOemc

Transcript

00:00The

00:24Fanhauser Film Studio in New Rochelle, New York made over 1,000 films in under 8 years.

00:33They featured the period's most popular stars and used cutting-edge special effects.

00:43At their peak, Fanhauser Films accounted for roughly one-quarter of all the independent

00:48films made in the U.S.

00:54And then suddenly, the studio disappeared.

00:59Growing up, my father told me that my grandfather was in the early motion picture industry,

01:04but he destroyed all of the negatives, and none of the films survived.

01:07I always wondered, what did they look like?

01:10What kind of films were they?

01:12Just imagine how surprised I was when I found some, and I saw how important and influential

01:17these films were in the early American cinema.