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Carl Laemelle: The Making of the Movie Business - Part 3: The Founding IMP
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Carl Laemelle: The Making of the Movie Business - Part 3: The Founding IMP
In the nickelodeon era, actors were shadows. You might recognize a face from one picture to the next, but you didn’t know the name, and that was by design.The big production companies, especially those in Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company, had a rule: no credits for actors. The thinking was simple and cold. If audiences knew an actor’s name, that actor could demand higher pay. By keeping performers anonymous, the studios kept them c…
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