Silent Studio Directory - During the silent era, the film industry was BOOMING AND, it was simple to get into the film industry NO sound equipment, NO studio and NO experience was needed Scrape up money for a camera and cameraman and you were in business THOUSANDS jumped aboard trying to make their fortune in this new fledgling industry As talent emerged and the industry stabilized, studios and distributors changed rapidly It has been declared that only 10 of the silent feature films made in the U S still exist Unfortunately, documentaries, shorts and regionals weren8217t even addressed in the statistics Documentation during the silent era is a historians8217 nightmare Whether you are preparing material for an auction, cataloging for an archive, adding to your collection, speculating on a possible piece of historical treasure, or doing film research, you want to be able to find information as quickly as possible In 2006, we created the first and only research database for film accessories, the historical documents issued WITH the film Each movie poster entered into the database had all the information on it fed into the computer There are currently over 100,000 poster images in the database, sortable from any direction To create this book, we started with studio and distributor information and logos that we had compiled from our database We then factored in trade ads and other information that we had gathered from our research This allowed us to tackle what was previously considered impossible 8211 the recreating of lost film history This will be continually refined and expanded as we continue documenting the film accessories For this reason, this book is not intended to be an allinclusive reference work on silent production and distribution companies We look at it as a starting point to BEGIN the expansion and reconstruction of this important time period in our cultural heritage In this first edition, we present 358 pages and 667 illustrations thousands of silent era production and distribution companies from around the world with dates, principles, and hundreds of logs and tags The FIRST EVER 8211 Silent Studio Directory