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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Betzwood cowboys
Lubin, Siegmund, -1923, Westerns--1910-1920., Cowboys., Motion picture studios.
Photograph of Lubin's stock cowboys at the Betzwood studio.
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Betzwood Film Company movie stills
Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Lubin, Seigmund, Betzwood Film Company, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film stills of movies released by the Betzwood Film Company
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Cowboy village
Westerns--1910-1920., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Motion picture studios--History--20th century.
Photograph of Lubin's cowboy village at his Betzwood Studio. He used this village for all of the Westerns filmed at Betzwood.
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Film still from "High Pockets"
MacDonald, Katherine, 1881-1956, Actors and actresses, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Black, William, 1871-, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of William Black and Katherine MacDonald from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets"
MacDonald, Katherine, 1881-1956, Actors and actresses, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, Lowry, Ira M., 1889-1951, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Louis Bennison and Katherine MacDonald from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Evans, Frank, Actors, Branding of cattle, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Black, William, 1871-, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of William Black and Frank Evans branding a cow from the movie "High Pockets" taken on the studio farm in Betzwood, Pennsylvania. This location is now a housing complex.
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Black, William, 1871-, Evans, Frank, Actors, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Lowery, Ira M., Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Louis Bennison holding William Black and Frank Evans at gunpoint from the movie "High Pockets" taken on the studio farm in Betzwood, Pennslyvania. This location is now a housing project.
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Evans, Frank, Actors, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Black, William, 1871-, Westerns--1910-1920., Westerns--1910-1920., Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of William Black and Frank Evans from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, MacDonald, Katherine, 1881-1956, Actors and actresses, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Bennison, Andrew, 1886-1942, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Katherine MacDonald, Louis Bennison, and Andrew (Andy) Bennison from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Actresses, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, MacDonald, Katherine, 1881-1956, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Katherine MacDonald from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Black, William, 1871-, Evans, Frank, Actors, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Louis Bennison holding William Black and Frank Evans at gunpoint from the movie "High Pockets" taken on the studio farm in Betzwood, Pennsylvania.
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, MacDonald, Katherine, 1881-1956, Actors and actresses, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Black, William, 1871-, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of William Black, Katherine MacDonald, and Louis Bennison from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets"
Actresses, Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, MacDonald, Katherine, 1881-1956, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Katherine MacDonald from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets" showing the exterior of the Dew Drop Saloon and Dance Hall
Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Actors and actresses, Westerns--1910-1920., Bars (Drinking establishments)
Film still of actors and actresses standing outside the Dew Drop Saloon and Dance Hall from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets" showing the interior of the Dew Drop Saloon and Dance Hall
Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Actors and actresses, Westerns--1910-1920., Bennison, Louis., MacDonald, Katherine, Roseman, Edward, Bennison, Andrew, Bars (Drinking establishments)
Film still of actors and actresses dancing inside the Dew Drop Saloon and Dance Hall from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still from "High Pockets" showing the interior of the Dew Drop Saloon and Dance Hall
Silent films, Film stills, 1910-1920, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Actors and actresses, Westerns--1910-1920., Bennison, Louis., MacDonald, Katherine, Roseman, Edward, Bennison, Andrew, Bars (Drinking establishments)
Film still of actors and actresses dancing inside the Dew Drop Saloon and Dance Hall from the movie "High Pockets"
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Film still of Louis Bennison in "A Misfit Earl"
Actors, Silent films, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Louis Bennison in "A Misfit Earl" sitting in his aunt's living room
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Film still of Noah Reynolds, John Keenan, Louis Bennison, and an unknown woman
Keenan, John, Reynolds, Noah, -1948, Actors and actresses, Silent films, Betzwood Film Company, Acheson, Portus, 1896-1989, Bennison, Louis, 1884-1929, Westerns--1910-1920.
Film still of Noah Reynolds, John Keenan, Louis Bennison, and an unknown woman
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Herbert Lubin on Prince
Lubin, Herbert, Lubin, Siegmund, -1923, Cowboys., Horsemanship, Horses., Lubin Manufacturing Company, Westerns--1910-1920.
Photograph of Herbert Lubin on the horse, Prince at the Betzwood studio.
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Herbert Lubin photo album
Cowboys., Lubin, Sigmund, -1923, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Cowboys., Westerns--1910-1920.
Photos of some of Lubin's cowboys in Herbert Lubin's photo album.
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