| LC control no. | n 84165323 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Lubin Manufacturing Company |
| See also | S. Lubin (Firm : Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Beginning date | 1909 |
| Ending date | 1916 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Address | Philadelphia Pennsylvania |
| Field of activity | Motion picture production Motion picture distribution |
| Found in | Eckhardt, J.P. Peddler of dreams, c1984: p. 11, in facsim. (Lubin Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pa.) passim (from about 1904 when he began building his motion picture empire until he went out of business in 1916 Siegmund Lubin operated many companies and subsidiaries under various names, so that it is difficult to relate one to another; some of names appearing in the book on various documents are: Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, S. Lubin Company, S. Lubin, Lubin Film Company) p. 1 (on September 1, 1916, the Lubin Film Company [no publications in LC database] went out of business) Eckhardt, J. The king of the movies, c1997: p. 80 (prior to 1909, Lubin's movie business had been a private enterprise, a personal operation run entirely by himself with the help of his family and a few longtime employees; on April 20, 1909 [he filed] an application to incorporate the Lubin Manufacturing Company) p. 181-183 (on June 13, 1914 a vault explosion and fire occured at Lubin's Philadelphia film studio. After the disaster, Lubin was in severe financial trouble and formed another company, the Lubin Film Company [no publications in LC database] to raise funds and divide his company into to entities to protect it) p. 225 (in mid-August, 1916, Lubin's creditors moved in to seize control of the Lubin Manufacturing Company) |
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