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Selig Polyscope Company

Selig Polyscope Company
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Foundation date 1 january 1896

The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago. Selig Polyscope is noted for establishing Southern California's first permanent movie studio, in the historic Edendale district of Los Angeles. The company produced hundreds of early, widely distributed commercial moving pictures, including the first films starring Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Colleen Moore, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The business gradually became a struggling zoo attraction in East Los Angeles, having ended film production in 1918.
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Filmography of Selig Polyscope Company (285 films)

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Production

Little Orphant Annie
Little Orphant Annie (1918)

Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Colleen Moore, Tom Santschi, Eugenie Besserer, Ben Alexander, Billy Jacobs, Lillian Hayward

Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
The Angel of Poverty Row
The Angel of Poverty Row (1917)
, 10minutes
Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bessie Eyton

Willie Goes to Sea
Willie Goes to Sea (1915)
, 10minutes
Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Wheeler Oakman

The Carpet from Bagdad
The Carpet from Bagdad (1915)

Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Kathlyn Williams, Wheeler Oakman, Guy Oliver, Eugenie Besserer, Frank Clark, Charles Clary

Horace Wadsworth, disinherited brother of New York banker Arthur Wadsworth, joins a gang of international criminals. He plots to rob his brother's bank by constructing a tunnel from the nearby home of antique dealer George Jones, who is currently on a trip to Cairo to purchase antique rugs. Horace follows him there, and learning of the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad, joins the caravan of its sworn guardian, Mohamed. Meanwhile, Horace's confederates Major Callahan and Mrs. Chedsoye arrive in Cairo along with Mrs. Chedsoye's daughter, Fortune, who is unaware of her mother's illicit activities.