Essanay Film Studio - Fremont, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 34.643 W 121° 58.884
10S E 589942 N 4159413
A sign in Fremont about the Essanay Studio.
Waymark Code: WMD8T1
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/05/2011
Views: 2
"The western branch studio of the Essanay film manufacturing company stood on this site from 1913 to 1933. It was the first movie studio built for that purpose in Northern California.
The Essanay Company of 52 people led by movie star cowboy Gilbert M Bronco Billy Anderson arrived in Niles on April 1912, attracted to this community by its favorable weather and Niles Canyon scenery. Over 100 films were made from the headquarters in a barn on Second St by the time the studio building was ready for occupancy the next year. In the next three years Essanay produced two hundred and fifty films here. Bronco Billy westerns, Snakeville comedies, contemporary dramas and five Charlie Chaplin , including Thw Tramp (1915). The studio closed in 1916 due to a chanGe in ownership and consolidation in production facilities at the main studio in Chicago. Nevertheless, the Niles studio was the most successful movie company in the San Francisco Bay Area during the silent film era.
Group that erected the marker: Unknown
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Niles Blvd
Fremont, CA USA
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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