Early American film company, a predecessor to Universal Pictures
Champion Film Company Movie still fromHow He Redeemed Himself
Industry Film Founded 1909 Founders Mark M. Dintenfass Headquarters ,United States
Products Motion pictures
TheChampion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M. Dintenfass.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Universal Pictures .
Champion was the first film production company to establish itself in the area aroundFort Lee, New Jersey , when the town was the home ofAmerica's first motion picture industry [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Englewood Cliffs in Coytesville, then a relatively remote area, to make them look as little like a studio as possible. The building was demolished on 2013.[ 8]
Movie still fromIn the Great Big West Dintenfass tried avoid the investigators ofThomas Alva Edison , always looking for the "pirates" who escaped the rigid conditions posed by theMotion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), the monopoly of the sector that it imposed, between the other, to use only the technical material (film cameras, film, etc.) that was to be provided exclusively by the trust.[ 9] [ 10] Carl Laemmle .
On April 30, 1912, Laemmle brought togetherPat Powers ofPowers Motion Picture Company , Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company, William Swanson ofRex Motion Picture Company , David Horsley ofNestor Film Company , and Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of theNew York Motion Picture Company , to merge their companies withIndependent Moving Pictures and create Universal Film Manufacturing Company, with Laemmle assuming the role of president.[ 11] Vim Comedy Company (1915)[ 12]
In its four years of activity, Champion produced more than two hundred films. It specialized initially in westerns and historical reconstructions of military episodes of theAmerican Civil War andAmerican Revolution . Later, he[who? produced numerous drama films, documentaries and some movies related to famous people, such as the aviatorsBlanche Scott andRobert G. Fowler . Among those who appeared in Champion films wereJohn G. Adolfi ,Irving Cummings ,Jeanie Macpherson .
Abernathy Kids to the Rescue Travers Vale (1910)A Romance of an Anvil Cow-boy and the Squaw The Spitfire (1910)The Hermit of the Rockies A Cowboy's Pledge The Sheriff and his Son Cowboy and the Easterner His Indian Bride A Wild Goose Chase The White Princess of the Tribe A Western Girl's Sacrifice The Cowboys to the Rescue How the Tenderfoot Made Good Stolen by Indians Doings at the Ranch Caught by Cowboys The Ranchman and the Miser The Way of the West Let Us Give Thanks The Indian Land Grab [ 2] Hearts of the West The Sheriff and the Detective His Mother The Golden Gates Days of the Early West Bill's Widow The Will of a Western Maid Why He Went West Judged by Higher Power At Double Trouble Ranch Her Three Proposals The Old Man and Jim Ulysses Davis (1911)A Western Girl's Choice The Vindication of John The Girl and the Oath The Pay-Roll The Bachelor's Old Maid The Price He Paid Men of the West With Stonewall Jackson A Half-Breed's Courage Gen. Meade's Fighting Days She Wanted a Man with Brains Clark's Capture of Kaskaskia Out of the Dark Ulysses Davis (1911)Col. E.D. Baker, 1st California Making a Man of His Son Gen. Marion, the Swamp Fox Circle C's New Boss With Sheridan at Murfreesboro In the Great Big West The Peril of Diaz How He Redeemed Himself Service Under Johnston and Lee The Cost of Drink Longstreet at Seven Pines His Last Crooked Deal Molly Pitcher Ulysses Davis (1911)For Her Sin War and the Widow The Boy Scouts to the Rescue The Fighting Rev. Caldwell Ulysses Davis (1911)A Cowboy and a Lord From Wallace to Grant Tony Would Be a Cowboy A Southern Girl's Heroism A Daring Deed The Exchange At the Trail's End The Perils of a War Messenger The Dubuque Regatta Dewey Chief Fire Eye's Game The Three Calls How the Girls Got Even When North and South Met The Confessional A Daughter of Dixie [ 2] How Tony Became a Hero Grant and Lincoln When the Law Came Charley's Buttle The Red Devils Sidney Drew (1911)Shenandoah The Stolen Horse The Black Horse Troop of Culver The Cook of the Ranch Barbara Frietchie As Things Used to Be The National Guard Encampment at Fort Riley What the Indians Did A Girl and a Spy Circumstantial Evidence The Copperhead Ulysses Davis (1911)Law or the Lady The Cowboys' Pies Folks of Old Virginia The Moonshiner's Trail The Redemption of a Coward The Passing of Sal National Guardsmen and Regulars at Fort Riley, Kansas When the Sheriff Got His Man The Mother Goose Series The Two Browns Field Day Sports at Ft. Riley, Kansas Yankee Doodle Our Navy The Indian Fortune Teller A Traitor on the Staff The Saving of Dan Ulysses Davis (1911)The Coward's Flute By Decree of Fate Bonnie of the Hills The Doctor's Close Call The Blood of the Poor The Kid of Roaring Camp An Aviator's Success Love That Never Fails Fathers and Sons A Tale of the Snow The Brute Her Brother's Partner Cardinal Farley's Home Coming How Jack Got Even with Bud The Aviator and the Autoist Race for a Bride A Divided Family Ulysses Davis (1912)Robert G. Fowler, Trans-Continental Aviator Mr. Piddle Rebels For Her Father's Sake The Merchant Mayor of Indianapolis A Wife's Discovery The Robbery at the Railroad Station A Higher Power Wrongly Accused The Manicurist Blind The Fatal Glass The Editor For Home and Honor Ireland and Israel A Night's Adventure Thou Shalt Not (?) Kid Canfield Ulysses Davis (1912)The Divorce Cure The Caricature of a Face The Blue Mountain Buffaloes Salvation Sue Baby's Adventures Bermuda A Gay Deceiver Brothers Wallace Reid (1912)Winona The Horse Thieves of Bar X Ranch An Italian Romance (1912 film) Realization of a Child's Dream Lucky Jim What Might Have Been The Duck Hunt (1912 film) The Cashier's Ordeal Mrs. Alden's Awakening Jay Hunt (1912)The Ranch Woman The Heroes of the Blue and Gray The Derelict A Squaw Man Camille Jay Hunt (1912)A Western Child's Heroism , directed bySidney M. Goldin (1912)Sisters Pat's Breeches Little Old New York The Gypsy Bride Foraging on the Enemy The Call of the West The Poisoners (1912 film) What a Woman Will Do For His Child The Bum and the Bomb Niagara Falls The Foundling The Maid of the Rocks The Trysting Tree The Dummy Director Rose of the Islands Her Whole Duty To Err Is Human The Girl in the Gingham Gown Thy Will Be Done Sue A Tramp's Strategy A Protégé of Uncle Sam Blue Ridge Folks The Gateway to America Billy Jones of New York The Honeymooners Right Shall Prevail The Chaperones (film) The White Heron The City Boarder Art and Love Sins of the Father The Death Trail The Marked Card The Rich Mr. Rockamorgan A Daughter of Virginia Her Stepmother The Duke and the Actor The Bum's Halloween Fond Heart Saves the Day The Honeymoon Lodging A Trim and a Shave An Interrupted Suicide A Knotty Knot The Life-Savers of Chicamocomo Shanghaied Lena's Flirtation When Strong Men Meet Knotty, Knotty! The Clown Hero Life in Soudan The Shark God John Griffith Wray (1913)Hawaiian Love John Griffith Wray The Leper ^ "MARK M. DINTENFASS, FILM PIONEER, DIES; Once Had Studio at Ftt. Leeu Ran for Governor of New Jersey as Single-Taxer" .The New York Times .^a b c "The Champion: A Story of America's First Film Town" .Trailers From Hell . September 23, 2017.^ Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry ISBN 9780738545011 ^ Grilli, Jon (December 4, 2018)."The Birth of the Universal Studios Tour" .KCET . ^ Kannapell, Andrea."Getting the Big Picture; The Film Industry Started Here and Left. Now It's Back, and the State Says the Sequel Is Huge." ,The New York Times ^ Amith, Dennis."Before Hollywood There Was Fort Lee, N.J.: Early Movie Making in New Jersey (a J!-ENT DVD Review)" , J!-ENTonline.com, January 1, 2011. Accessed December 7, 2013. "When Hollywood, California, was mostly orange groves, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a center of American film production." ^ Rose, Lisa."100 years ago, Fort Lee was the first town to bask in movie magic" ,The Star-Ledger ^ "From the Archives: Remember the Champion Studio!" .Fort Lee, NJ Patch . December 21, 2013.^ Koszarski, Richard (March 2, 2005).Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904-2004) ISBN 9780861969425 ^ "Fort Lee Film Commission | Fort Lee, NJ" . April 5, 2011. Archived fromthe original on April 5, 2011.^ Dick, Bernard F. (May 1, 1997).City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures . University Press of Kentucky.ISBN 9780813120164 ^ "State Archives of Florida Online Catalog, Creator:Bletcher, Billy, 1894-1979, Title, Dates:Billy Bletcher's Vim Southern Studio motion picture photographs, 1915–1917" . Archived fromthe original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved2011-07-26 .
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