Thanhouser Company
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The Thanhouser Company was one of the first motion picture studios, founded in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser
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Edwin Thanhouser
Edwin Thanhouser was an actor, businessman, and film producer, most notable as a founder of the Thanhouser Company, along with his wife Gertrude Thanhouser and brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan.-Biography:...
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See also
- The Evidence of the FilmThe Evidence of the FilmThe Evidence of the Film is a 1913 American silent short crime film directed by Lawrence Marston and Edwin Thanhouser starring William Garwood....
, (one of the over 1,000 films produced by Thanhouser) was selected in 2001 for inclusion in the National Film RegistryNational Film RegistryThe National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...
http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2001.html by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of CongressLibrary of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
for its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.
External links
- http://www.thanhouser.org Official Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. web site
- American Film Institute