Montgomery County Community College - Betzwood Studios

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About This Collection

Welcome to the Montgomery County Community College's Betzwood Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. In the first decades of the motion picture industry Montgomery County was home to one of the largest film studios in the country. Siegmund Lubin owned and operated the Betzwood Studios along the banks of the Schuylkill River, a three hundred acre site complete with filming, production, and distribution centers. As one of the earliest film moguls, Siegmund Lubin has both regional and national significance. He was a technical innovator whose many contributions to the industry helped propel film to its position atop the entertainment industry. The collection contains film stills, publicity, correspondence, trade journals, slides, and glass plate negatives among other items. Using PA Photos and Documents in tandem with Worpress Blog site, the college seeks to tell the history of this important but forgotten player in film history.
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27 N. Vassar Square, Ventnor, NJ
Silent films, Lubin, Siegmund, -1923, Lubin Film Studios, Silent films--1910-1920., Motion picture studios.
Lubin's final house. He died here in 1923.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Silent films--1910-1920., Westerns--1910-1920., Cowboys., Motion picture studios.
Photograph of the Betzwood Studio's western village facsimile. Lubin used the set for all his western movies.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Lubin, Manufacturing Company, Barns, Farm equipment., Motion picture studios.
Photograph of farm equipment and barn on the Lubin Manufacturing Company land.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Motion picture studios., Actresses., Silent films--1910-1920., Lea, Flora, Motion picture theaters
Publicity photo of Lubin actress, Flora Lea. Flora played parts in the Lubin films The Road O' Strife and In the Hour of Disaster. The Road O' Strife has the distinction of being one of the first attempts without intertitles, the text providing dialog or plot.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Motion picture studios., Motion picture actors and actresses., Joyner, Francis, Publicity photographs--1910-1920.
Publicity photo of actor Francis Joyner. Joyner starred in the movies Mr. Housekeeper, The Winning of Beatrice, and The Auction Block.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Motion picture studios., Actresses--1910-1920., Publicity photographs--1910-1920., Mae, Frankie
Publicity photo of actress, Frankie Mae.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Motion picture studios., Myers, Harry, 1886-1938, Actors., Publicity photographs--1910-1920.
Publicity photo of Lubin actor, Harry Myers, Myers played opposite actress Florence Lawrence in some of Lubins better films.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Westerns--1910-1920., Cowboys., Motion picture studios., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Horses.
Photo of "Lubin" cowboys, Harry Haegner and Charles Young, beside their horses.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Westerns--1910-1920., Cowboys., Horses., Motion picture studios.
Photo of Harry Loomes, one of Lubin's "cowboys".
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Photography., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Lubin Manufacturing Company
Photo of Herbert Lubin, Sigmund's nephew, bathed in dramatic light.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Photograph albums., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios.
Two photos of Herbert Lubin, Sigmund Lubin's nephew, from his photo album.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Cowboys., Silent films--1910-1920.
Photos of Herbert Lubin and Joe Croft from Herbert's photo album.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Motion pictures--1910-1920., Advertising--Motion picture, Motion pictures--History., Publicity.
Studio photo of Herbert Lubin as the Assistant Publicity Manager.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Barns., Livestock., Sheep., Motion picture studios.
Photo of sheep on the Betzwood studio property.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Cowboys., Gunfights--Fiction.
Photos of Herbert on set from his album.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Animals, Donkeys., Motion picture studios.
Photograph of some of the studio's donkeys from Herbert Lubin's album.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Peters, House, 1880-1967, Motion picture studios., Actors and actresses., Promotional materials--1900-1920.
Promotional photo of actor House Peters. Born in England, Peters stared with Mary Pickford in In the Bishops Carraige.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Mitchell, Howard, 1883-1958, Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Motion picture actors and actresses., Promotional materials--1900-1920.
Promotional photo of actor and director Howard M. Mitchell.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Silent films--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Lowery, Ira, Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios., Motion picture producers and directors.
Photograph of Ira Lowery, Lubin's son-in-law.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Silent films--1910-1920., Motion picture studios., Motion picture actors and actresses., Standing, Jack, 1886-1917, Publicity photographs--1910-1920., Lubin Manufacturing Company
Publicity photo of Jack Standing, English actor, signing with Sigmund Lubin in 1911. Standing's had his greatest success with Hell's Hinges in 1916, co-staring with another one of Lubin's most important actors Clara Williams. Standing died in 1917 of pneumonia.
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