The Champion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M. Dintenfass.[1][2][3][4] The studio was one of the film companies that merged to form Universal Pictures.
Champion was the first film production company to establish itself in the area around Fort Lee, New Jersey, when the town was the home of America's first motion picture industry[5][6][7] It built its studio in the vicinity of Fort Lee, at the town line with 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 from In the Great Big West
Dintenfass tried avoid the investigators of Thomas Alva Edison, always looking for the "pirates" who escaped the rigid conditions posed by the Motion 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] To circumvent the MPPC, the independents - including Dintenfass - distributed their films through the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company of Carl Laemmle.
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 the American Civil War and American Revolution. Later, he[who?] produced numerous drama films, documentaries and some movies related to famous people, such as the aviators Blanche Scott and Robert G. Fowler. Among those who appeared in Champion films were John G. Adolfi, Irving Cummings, Jeanie Macpherson.
^"MARK M. DINTENFASS, FILM PIONEER, DIES; Once Had Studio at Ftt. Leeu Ran for Governor of New Jersey as Single-Taxer". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
^ abc"The Champion: A Story of America's First Film Town". Trailers From Hell. September 23, 2017.
^Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry. Arcadia Publishing. August 19, 2006. ISBN9780738545011 – via Google Books.
^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, October 4, 1998. Accessed December 7, 2013.
^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, April 29, 2012. Accessed December 7, 2013. "Back in 1912, when Hollywood had more cattle than cameras, Fort Lee was the center of the cinematic universe. Icons from the silent era like Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish crossed the Hudson River via ferry to emote on Fort Lee back lots."
^"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). Indiana University Press. ISBN9780861969425 – via Google Books.
^. April 5, 2011. Archived from the 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. ISBN9780813120164.
^. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
External links
"IMDb: With Champion Film Company". IMDb.
January 31, 2023
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The Champion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M Dintenfass 1 2 3 4 The studio was one of the film companies that merged to form Universal Pictures Champion Film CompanyMovie still from How He Redeemed HimselfIndustryFilmFounded1909FoundersMark M DintenfassHeadquartersCoytesville New Jersey United StatesProductsMotion picturesChampion was the first film production company to establish itself in the area around Fort Lee New Jersey when the town was the home of America s first motion picture industry 5 6 7 It built its studio in the vicinity of Fort Lee at the town line with 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 from In the Great Big West Dintenfass tried avoid the investigators of Thomas Alva Edison always looking for the pirates who escaped the rigid conditions posed by the Motion 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 To circumvent the MPPC the independents including Dintenfass distributed their films through the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company of Carl Laemmle On April 30 1912 Laemmle brought together Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company David Horsley of Nestor Film Company and Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company to merge their companies with Independent Moving Pictures and create Universal Film Manufacturing Company with Laemmle assuming the role of president 11 Dintenfass later founded the 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 the American Civil War and American Revolution Later he who produced numerous drama films documentaries and some movies related to famous people such as the aviators Blanche Scott and Robert G Fowler Among those who appeared in Champion films were John G Adolfi Irving Cummings Jeanie Macpherson Contents 1 Filmography 2 Gallery 3 References 4 External linksFilmography EditAbernathy Kids to the Rescue directed by Travers Vale 1910 A Romance of an Anvil 1910 Cow boy and the Squaw 1910 The Spitfire 1910 The Hermit of the Rockies 1910 A Cowboy s Pledge 1910 The Sheriff and his Son 1910 Cowboy and the Easterner 1910 His Indian Bride 1910 A Wild Goose Chase 1910 The White Princess of the Tribe 1910 A Western Girl s Sacrifice 1910 The Cowboys to the Rescue 1910 How the Tenderfoot Made Good 1910 Stolen by Indians 1910 Doings at the Ranch 1910 Caught by Cowboys 1910 The Ranchman and the Miser 1910 The Way of the West 1910 Let Us Give Thanks 1910 The Indian Land Grab 1910 2 Hearts of the West 1910 The Sheriff and the Detective 1910 His Mother 1910 The Golden Gates 1910 Days of the Early West 1910 Bill s Widow 1911 The Will of a Western Maid 1911 Why He Went West 1911 Judged by Higher Power 1911 At Double Trouble Ranch 1911 Her Three Proposals 1911 The Old Man and Jim directed by Ulysses Davis 1911 A Western Girl s Choice 1911 The Vindication of John 1911 The Girl and the Oath 1911 The Pay Roll 1911 The Bachelor s Old Maid 1911 The Price He Paid 1911 Men of the West 1911 With Stonewall Jackson 1911 A Half Breed s Courage 1911 Gen Meade s Fighting Days 1911 She Wanted a Man with Brains 1911 Clark s Capture of Kaskaskia 1911 Out of the Dark directed by Ulysses Davis 1911 Col E D Baker 1st California 1911 Making a Man of His Son 1911 Gen Marion the Swamp Fox 1911 Circle C s New Boss 1911 With Sheridan at Murfreesboro 1911 In the Great Big West 1911 The Peril of Diaz 1911 How He Redeemed Himself 1911 Service Under Johnston and Lee 1911 The Cost of Drink 1911 Longstreet at Seven Pines 1911 His Last Crooked Deal 1911 Molly Pitcher directed by Ulysses Davis 1911 For Her Sin 1911 War and the Widow 1911 The Boy Scouts to the Rescue 1911 The Fighting Rev Caldwell directed by Ulysses Davis 1911 A Cowboy and a Lord 1911 From Wallace to Grant 1911 Tony Would Be a Cowboy 1911 A Southern Girl s Heroism 1911 A Daring Deed 1911 The Exchange 1911 At the Trail s End 1911 The Perils of a War Messenger 1911 The Dubuque Regatta 1911 Dewey 1911 Chief Fire Eye s Game 1911 The Three Calls 1911 How the Girls Got Even 1911 When North and South Met 1911 The Confessional 1911 A Daughter of Dixie 1911 2 How Tony Became a Hero 1911 Grant and Lincoln 1911 When the Law Came 1911 Charley s Buttle 1911 The Red Devils directed by Sidney Drew 1911 Shenandoah 1911 The Stolen Horse 1911 The Black Horse Troop of Culver 1911 The Cook of the Ranch 1911 Barbara Frietchie 1911 As Things Used to Be 1911 The National Guard Encampment at Fort Riley 1911 What the Indians Did 1911 A Girl and a Spy 1911 Circumstantial Evidence 1911 The Copperhead directed by Ulysses Davis 1911 Law or the Lady 1911 The Cowboys Pies 1911 Folks of Old Virginia 1911 The Moonshiner s Trail 1911 The Redemption of a Coward 1911 The Passing of Sal 1911 National Guardsmen and Regulars at Fort Riley Kansas 1911 When the Sheriff Got His Man 1911 The Mother Goose Series 1911 The Two Browns 1911 Field Day Sports at Ft Riley Kansas 1911 Yankee Doodle 1911 Our Navy 1911 The Indian Fortune Teller 1911 A Traitor on the Staff 1911 The Saving of Dan directed by Ulysses Davis 1911 The Coward s Flute directed byUlysses Davis 1911 By Decree of Fate 1911 Bonnie of the Hills 1911 The Doctor s Close Call 1911 The Blood of the Poor directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 The Kid of Roaring Camp 1912 An Aviator s Success 1912 Love That Never Fails directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 Fathers and Sons 1912 A Tale of the Snow 1912 The Brute directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 Her Brother s Partner 1912 Cardinal Farley s Home Coming 1912 How Jack Got Even with Bud 1912 The Aviator and the Autoist Race for a Bride 1912 A Divided Family directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 Robert G Fowler Trans Continental Aviator 1912 Mr Piddle Rebels 1912 For Her Father s Sake directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 The Merchant Mayor of Indianapolis directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 A Wife s Discovery 1912 The Robbery at the Railroad Station 1912 A Higher Power 1912 Wrongly Accused directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 The Manicurist 1912 Blind 1912 The Fatal Glass 1912 The Editor 1912 For Home and Honor 1912 Ireland and Israel 1912 A Night s Adventure 1912 Thou Shalt Not 1912 Kid Canfield directed by Ulysses Davis 1912 The Divorce Cure 1912 The Caricature of a Face 1912 The Blue Mountain Buffaloes 1912 Salvation Sue 1912 Baby s Adventures 1912 Bermuda 1912 A Gay Deceiver 1912 Brothers directed by Wallace Reid 1912 Winona 1912 The Horse Thieves of Bar X Ranch 1912 An Italian Romance 1912 film 1912 Realization of a Child s Dream 1912 Lucky Jim 1912 What Might Have Been 1912 The Duck Hunt 1912 film 1912 The Cashier s Ordeal 1912 Mrs Alden s Awakening directed by Jay Hunt 1912 The Ranch Woman 1912 The Heroes of the Blue and Gray 1912 The Derelict 1912 A Squaw Man 1912 Camille directed by Jay Hunt 1912 A Western Child s Heroism directed by Sidney M Goldin 1912 Sisters 1912 Pat s Breeches 1912 Little Old New York 1912 The Gypsy Bride directed by Lawrence B McGill 1912 Foraging on the Enemy 1912 The Call of the West 1912 The Poisoners 1912 film 1912 What a Woman Will Do 1912 For His Child 1912 The Bum and the Bomb 1912 Niagara Falls 1912 The Foundling 1912 The Maid of the Rocks 1912 The Trysting Tree 1912 The Dummy Director 1912 Rose of the Islands 1912 Her Whole Duty 1912 To Err Is Human 1912 The Girl in the Gingham Gown 1912 Thy Will Be Done 1912 Sue 1912 A Tramp s Strategy 1912 A Protege of Uncle Sam 1912 Blue Ridge Folks 1912 The Gateway to America 1912 Billy Jones of New York 1912 The Honeymooners 1912 Right Shall Prevail 1912 The Chaperones film 1912 The White Heron 1912 The City Boarder 1912 Art and Love 1913 Sins of the Father 1913 The Death Trail 1913 The Marked Card 1913 The Rich Mr Rockamorgan 1913 A Daughter of Virginia 1913 Her Stepmother 1913 The Duke and the Actor 1913 The Bum s Halloween 1913 Fond Heart Saves the Day 1913 The Honeymoon Lodging 1913 A Trim and a Shave 1913 An Interrupted Suicide 1913 A Knotty Knot 1913 The Life Savers of Chicamocomo 1913 Shanghaied 1913 Lena s Flirtation 1913 When Strong Men Meet 1913 Knotty Knotty 1913 The Clown Hero 1913 Life in Soudan 1913 The Shark God directed by John Griffith Wray 1913 Hawaiian Love 1913 directed by John Griffith Wray The Leper film 1913 Gallery Edit John G Adolfi Irving Cummings Jeanie MacPherson In the Great Big West 1911 How He Redeemed Himself 1911 References Edit MARK M DINTENFASS FILM PIONEER DIES Once Had Studio at Ftt Leeu Ran for Governor of New Jersey as Single Taxer timesmachine nytimes com 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 Arcadia Publishing August 19 2006 ISBN 9780738545011 via Google Books 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 October 4 1998 Accessed December 7 2013 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 April 29 2012 Accessed December 7 2013 Back in 1912 when Hollywood had more cattle than cameras Fort Lee was the center of the cinematic universe Icons from the silent era like Mary Pickford Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish crossed the Hudson River via ferry to emote on Fort Lee back lots 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 Indiana University Press ISBN 9780861969425 via Google Books Fort Lee Film Commission Fort Lee NJ April 5 2011 Archived from the 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 from the original on 2011 07 26 Retrieved 2011 07 26 External links Edit IMDb With Champion Film Company IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Champion Film Company amp oldid 1064362923, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
