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The Kinemacolor Company of America, Incorporated
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Type of Company
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Production company
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Country of Origination
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United States of America
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Years of Operation
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Active circa 1913
Dissolved [?] 1916?
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Company Principals
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Gilbert Henry Aymar
James Klein Bowen
J.J. Murdock, president (after reorganization)
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Company Offices
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA (circa 1910)
1600 Broadway, New York, New York, USA (circa 1913)
538 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA (circa 1913)
132 East Fourth Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (circa 1913)
509 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (circa 1913)
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Company Studios
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA (circa 1910)
Hollywood, California, USA (circa late 1912)
Whitestone, New York
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Kinemacolor Company of America was an American production company producing color films under a license from Charles Urban. The company was reorganized with J.J. Murdock as president. Mutual later took over the company’s California studio.
References: Robinson-Palace p. 163 : Website-Wikipedia.
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[The Moving Picture World, 23 November 1912, page 761] Kinemacolor Activities. / The Kinemacolor Company of America is all here [Los Angeles] now, several of the members who left the party on Arizona their way out from New York having rejoined it at the new studio near Hollywood. The stop in Arizona was made for the purpose of filming the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and its environs. Two full reels of pictures were obtained with all the gorgeous natural colors of the canyon and the indescribably beautiful tints of sunset and dawn. Heretofore it has been necessary for people to go to the Grand Canyon to gain any accurate idea of its beauty and grandeur because, although ordinary photographs showed the outlines of it they could not reproduce the colors. Through the Kinemacolor Company’s enterprise it will now be possible to take the soul of the greatest gash in the world’s crust to people who otherwise could never hope to see it.
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