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more temperate Los Angeles. He left Essanay after only one year for more money and more creative control elsewhere. His departure caused a rift between founders Spoor and Anderson. Chaplin was the studio's biggest moneymaker, and Essanay resorted to creating "new" Chaplin comedies from file footage and out-takes. Finally, with Chaplin off the Essanay scene for good, Essanay signed French comedian
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Silent films were largely photographed outdoors for the natural sunlight; even some interior scenes were filmed outdoors, with theatrical scenery propped up behind the actors. Chaplin didn't like the unpredictable weather of Chicago or the chilly climate of Niles, and moved his production unit to the
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at the mouth of Niles Canyon, "Essanay built 10 modest cottages for their actors on 2nd Street, between F and G streets, and constructed an unassuming (200-foot) studio nearby", across the street from the railroad tracks. More than 350 films were produced in Niles by Essanay. On 16 February 1916, the
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and television commercials. Wilding's tenancy was much longer than Essanay's; he maintained the physical plant until at least 1967, when trade magazines stopped mentioning "Wilding, Inc." In the early 1970s, a portion of the studio was offered to Columbia College (Chicago) for one dollar, but the
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and having actor Leo White film new scenes in Chicago to connect the older Chaplin scenes. Exhibitors were suspicious of the film's authenticity, so Spoor went public. "I wish to state that the film is new in its entirety, just as advertised, and is not a rehash, nor a reissue under a new title,"
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Group photograph of the Essanay stock company in Chicago, Illinois, 1911: Top row, left to right: Joseph Dailey, F. Doolittle, Inez Callahan, William J. Murray, Curtis Cooksey, Helen Lowe, Howard Missimer, Miss Lavalliet, Cyril Raymond. Middle row: Florence Hoffman, Harry Cashman, Alice Donovan,
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comedies produced in 1915-1916. In late 1916, it merged distribution with other studios and stopped issuing films in the fall of 1918. According to film historian Steve Massa, Essanay is one of the important early studios, with comedies as a particular strength. Founders Spoor and Anderson were
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issues, complete from the first issue through May 1915, and received $ 1,250 from Essanay for the one hundred stories they selected. Essanay failed to return the magazines to Kane, who sued them for $ 20,000 compensation for the loss of the magazines, eventually winning his case in the
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Frank Dayton, Harry McRae Webster (producer/director), Lottie Briscoe (leads), William C. Walters, Rose Evans. Bottom row: Eva Prout (Evebelle Ross Prout), Bobbie Guhl, Jack Essanay (dog), Charlotte Vacher, Tommy Shirley (Thomas P. Shirley).
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The Chicago studio continued to produce films until 1918, reaching a total of well over 1,400 Essanay titles during its ten-year history. In a last-ditch attempt to cash in on Charlie Chaplin's popularity, Essanay cobbled together
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comedies were produced as well by the Chicago company, including installments showcasing the small boy "Dreamy Dud" and his dog "Wag", who in the early 1900s were among the favorite cartoon characters of theater audiences.
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in 1909, "Colorado is the finest place in the country for Wild West stuff". The Western operations moved to California, but traveled between Northern to Southern California seasonally. This included locations in
657:, however, Essanay is presenting an entirely new film as stated." The finished film found an audience, since new Chaplin comedies were then hard to come by, but the revenue wasn't enough to save the company. 2143: 107:, originally as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Company, then as Essanay (formed by the founders' initials: S and A) on August 10, 1907. Essanay is probably best known today for its series of 2128: 1790: 2113: 2138: 2103: 2083: 332:. The mainstay of the organization, however, was studio co-owner Gilbert Anderson, starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" Westerns, and ultimately its biggest star was 2078: 2168: 2098: 463:
in the San Francisco East Bay Area, setting up in Frank Mortimer's empty barn on Second between G and H Streets, for interior scenes. The next year in the town of
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was also a screenwriter for the studio and went on to be a powerful Hollywood gossip columnist. Owners Spoor (in 1948) and Anderson (in 1958) received the
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offer lapsed without action. Then it was given to a non-profit television corporation which sold it. One tenant was the midwest office of
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Attempting to capitalize on the popularity of Chaplin, the studio in 1915 had its cartoon character Dreamy Dud in a Chaplin-themed short
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Essanay was originally located at 501 Wells Street (modern numbering: 1360 N. Wells). Essanay's first film,
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Spoor explained. "The facts are that at the time of making the picture it went under the working title of
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format, in 1930. He died in Chicago in 1953. G. M. Anderson became an independent producer, sponsoring
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The Essanay building in Chicago was later taken over by independent producer Norman Wilding, who made
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In 1916, Essanay arranged a deal with William Kane, who later become the publisher and editor of
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was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and developed into a famous Hollywood director.
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George K. Spoor continued to work in the motion picture industry, introducing an unsuccessful
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Niles lot was closed by George K. Spoor via telegram. By the 1930s, it had been torn down.
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Essanay Film Manufacturing Company logo in a still frame from a Charlie Chaplin film
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In 1915, in a effort to save the studio, Essanay entered into an agreement with
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Charlie Chaplin (1915) walking down the road dejectedly, in the last scene of
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in a series of silent comedies. Anderson died in Los Angeles in 1971.
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In late 1914, Essanay succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from
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Essanay's productions include the first American film version of
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system in 1923, and Spoor-Berggren Natural Vision, a 65 mm
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Nilesfilmmuseum.org: "Story of Essanay Studios in Niles"
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about the nineteenth-century American outlaw brothers
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History TV: "An animated history of Essanay Studios
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Gilbert M. Anderson
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Academy Awards

Coordinates
41°58′21″N 87°39′50″W / 41.9724°N 87.6638°W / 41.9724; -87.6638
Chicago Landmark
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Uptown, Chicago

silent films
George Periolat
Ben Turpin
Wallace Beery
Thomas Meighan
Colleen Moore
Francis X. Bushman
Gloria Swanson
Ann Little
Helen Dunbar

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