Reliance Film Company (1910–1915)[1] was an early movie production studio in the United States. It was established in 1910 in Coney Island by Adam Kessel Jr. and Charles O. Baumann.[2][1]
Harry Aitken purchased the Reliance Film Company in 1911 from Charles O. Baumann.[citation needed] It also went by the name the Reliance Motion Picture Company.
History edit
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Reliance Film Company was founded in 1910 by Adam Kessel Jr. and Charles O. Baumann in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City.[1][2] It was a subsidiary of the New York Motion Picture Company. They were also the founders of the Bison Film Company on the West Coast.[2]
In 1911, Baumann stepped down from leadership at the company in order to focus more time at the Bison Film Company; control and management was succeeded by J. V. Ritchey and J. C. Graham.[3] From 1910 until 1912, Kessel and Baumann were joined at the company by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, both were actors and filmmakers.[2][4]
The studio took over the offices of the Sanford White studio in Manhattan. It also operated a 10,000 sq ft factory on Coney Island.[5] It published The Film, a weekly.[6] Actor Max Davidson portrayed the character 'Izzy' in a series of Reliance films shorts in 1914.[7]
Filmography edit
- A Brass Button (1911)
- Her Son (1911)
- Jealousy (1912 film)[8]
- Votes for Women (film) (1912), about women's suffrage produced in partnership with the National American Woman Suffrage Association
- The Rose Bush of Memories (1914)
- The Huron Converts (1915) with Joseph Henabery
- Man (1913 film), a Reliance film directed by Oscar Apfel starring James Ashley, Gertrude Robinson
- Before the White Man Came
- At Cripple Creek
- The Victoria Cross (1912 film) (The Charge of the Light Brigade), directed by Hal Reid
- A Man's Duty[9]
- The Secret Service Man
- Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)
- His Mother's Son (1913)
- Kaintuck (1912), a Kaintuck is a native of Kentucky
- Virginius (film) (1912), based on the play by James Sheridan Knowles
- The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914)
- The Great Leap; Until Death Do Us Part (1914)
- The Three Brothers (1915 film) (1915)
- Station Content (1915 film) (1915)
- The Craven (1915)
- Sympathy Sal (1915)
- The Outlaw's Revenge (1915)
- Macbeth[10]
- Rosanna's Dream
- Solomon's Son
- When Men Love
- Invasion of the Wilderness
- The Girl Who Waited
- The Reckoning
References edit
- ^ a b c Langman, Larry (1992). A Guide to Silent Westerns. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-313-27858-7.
- ^ a b c d Slide, Anthony (1996). Lois Weber: The Director who Lost Her Way in History. Greenwood Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-313-29945-2.
- ^ "Reliance Management is Now in New Hands". Motion Picture News. Motion Picture News Incorporated. 1911. p. 7.
- ^ Lant, Antonia; Periz, Ingrid (2006-12-17). Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema. Verso Books. p. 686. ISBN 978-1-85984-722-0.
- ^ "Motion Picture News". Motion Picture News Incorporated. February 17, 1912 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Motography". May 17, 1915 – via Google Books.
- ^ Eagan, Daniel (January 1, 2010). America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry. A&C Black. ISBN 9780826429773 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Good Attractions at the Palace Today". The Macon News. 10 April 1912. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-04-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Fleming, E. J. (October 25, 2013). Wallace Reid: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol. McFarland. ISBN 9780786477258 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. May 17, 1916 – via Google Books.
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