"Charles Baumann" redirects here. For the American football player, see Charlie Baumann.
Charles O. Baumann (January 20, 1874 – July 18, 1931) was an American film producer, film studio executive, and pioneer in the motion picture industry.
He was a partner in the Crescent Film Company formed in 1908 and in the Bison Life Motion Pictures production company formed in 1909. He co-founded New York Film Company with Adam Kessel in 1909. Intended to be a distributor it turned to production after difficulties with Thomas Edison's production company. In 1912, he was a founder and the first president of Universal Film Manufacturing Company (now Universal Studios).
In the mid-1910s, Kessel and Baumann also branched into film distribution with their Mutual Film Corporation, which later was absorbed into Triangle Film Corporation. Baumann continued in production in the early 1920s as a partner in the Kessel-Baumann Picture Corporation production company.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Deathedit
He died on July 18, 1931, of influenza in New York City.
Referencesedit
^Charles O. Baumann at Silent Era. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
^Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing, ISBN0-86196-653-8, , p. 11, 13, 33, 34
^Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN0-7385-4501-5, , p. 17
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