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  1. Mar 7, 2016 · An ad for the film’s Chicago premiere at the VLSE Theater in June, 1916. Finally back in town! Though the vast majority of Essanay films are now long gone, and when we started the book, one of the most important missing ones was Sherlock Holmes, the 1916 film that was the first movie ever made about the famous sleuth. It starred William ...

  2. May 21, 2015 · Across a frenetic, increasingly competitive decade, 1907 to 1917, primarily in Chicago and in the foothills of Niles, Calif., Essanay made 2,000 films. About 215 survive today, including about one ...

  3. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago by George Kirke Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, originally as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Company, then as Essanay (formed by the founders' initials: S and A) on August 10, 1907. [1][2] Essanay is probably best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies produced in 1915-1916.

  4. Jul 15, 2015 · Most famously, Essanay produced Charlie Chaplin’s classic film, The Tramp in 1915. As America’s film industry moved west, Essanay eventually closed down in Chicago, and was absorbed into ...

  5. Chicago was a major influence during the silent film era producing movies with huge stars like Charlie Chaplin, Edna Mayo, and Max Linder, and the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods were the very epicenters. Essanay Studios was located at 1333-45 W. Argyle Street (just east of Clark Street) in 1908.

  6. Apr 10, 2020 · Film set for a silent western featuring Gilbert M. Anderson as “Broncho Billy” at Essanay Studios in Chicago, c. 1910. CHM, ICHi-016886. While Chaplin was at Essanay from only 1915 to 1916, he was undoubtedly its biggest star. Best known for his iconic role as the bumbling, childlike Tramp, he was also in several shorts, such as The ...

  7. Jul 20, 2013 · From the Chicago History Museum: "Charlie Chaplin filmed only one movie in Chicago— His New Job in 1915—but it helped catapult him to mega–movie star status. In the burgeoning decades of American cinema, Chicago was the first Hollywood.

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