File:Directors meeting at Edison Studios, 1911.jpeg

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English: Photograph taken in early 1911 of a weekly meeting of the directors and head of production at Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York; clockwise from left: Director Ashley Miller, Director J. Searle Dawley, Producer-in-Chief Horace G. Plimpton at head of table, Assistant Director Charles J. Brabin with pipe, and Director C. Jay Williams. Another director, Oscar C. Apfel, had been hired just before this photograph was taken, but he had not yet begun working at the studio; image published as illustration for the article "Producers of Edison Photoplays: The Men Behind the Pictures", The Nickelodeon (New York, N.Y.), February 12, 1911, p. 157. [NOTE: In this early period of the silent era, the job titles "director" and "producer" were often used interchangeably. Film directors were also often identified as "stage directors".]
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Original publication: The Nickelodeon (New York, N.Y.)

Immediate source: Internet Archive (San Francisco, California): https://archive.org/stream/nickelodeon05elec#page/156/mode/2up
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Edison Studios (Bronx, New York)

(Life time: pre-1925 image provided by defunct film company and published in defunct trade publication)
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English: Image was copied, cropped, and sized by Wikipedia contributor Strudjum on August 6, 2020.


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