Vitagraph Studios

Vitagraph Studios
IndustryMotion picture exhibition, distribution and production
Founded1897 (1897)
Defunct1925 (1925)
FateAcquired by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Subsequently folded into Warner Bros.
SuccessorThe Vitaphone Corporation
Headquarters
ProductsMotion pictures, film distribution
ParentIndependent (1914–1925)
Warner Bros. (1925)
William T. Rock, Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton, 1916

Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films.[1] It was bought by Warner Bros. in 1925.

  1. ^ Eilseen Bowser, The Transformation of Cinema 1907–1915, University of California Press, 1990, p. 23. ISBN 0-520-08534-5.

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