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Silent Movie & Radio in Chicago


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Chicago Silent Films Capital


ESSANAY MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Gilbert M. Anderson (Broncho Billy)
Charlie Chaplin (1915)
Inside Essanay’s Chicago Studio (1915)
Sherlock Holmes (1916)


SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY.
Selig Polyscope Company
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Kathlyn Williams
Natural Vision


BELL & HOWELL COMPANY.
Bell & Howell Model 2709 Cinemachinery Camera
Bell & Howell Filmo Cinemachinery Camera


THEATERS.
Nickelodeon Theatres in Chicago
Balaban & Katz’s Movie Palaces
Essaness Theaters


INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FILMS.
Carl Laemmle
1916—Cousin Jim
Wilding Picture Productions
Burton Holmes Films, Inc.
In Old Chicago
War Films of Edwin Weigle
At Old Fort Dearborn & Pioneer Days
Electrical Show of Chicago
Chicago Movie Film Firsts


RADIO AND TELEVISON.
Radio Capital
WMAQ Radio
WGN Transmitter
WGN Studio
WGN FM
WGN Firsts
Little Orphan Annie

WBKB Televison

Allied Radio Corporation
Grigsby-Grunow Company
Zenith Radio Corporation


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