Independent Moving Pictures

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The Independent Moving Pictures Company

The Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) was a

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, later renamed Universal Pictures Company
with Laemmle as president.

History

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The Independent Moving Pictures Company was founded in 1909 by Carl Laemmle and was located at 573 11th Ave New York City, with a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey.[1]

The first movie produced by IMP was

marquee as well as promotion in advertising, which contributed to the creation of the star system
.

In the early 20th century, the

Fox Film Corporation), and Adolph Zukor (Famous Players Film Company, a precursor to Paramount). The flexible, stealthy and adventurous independents avoided coercive MPPC restrictions (the requirement to use only Trust film stock and projectors, for example) by using unlicensed equipment, obtaining their own film materials, and making movies on the sly. After many of the independents, including IMP, organized their distribution subsidiaries into the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company in mid-1910, with Laemmle as their president, the Trust issued an injunction against Laemmle for the camera being used, claiming that it was an infringement on their patents,[3]
but eventually lost.

Before long, the independents began moving to

Gower Street, which became known as "Gower Gulch" due to the actors dressed as cowboys and Indians waiting on that corner to be cast in Westerns
.

By May 1912, the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company began to collapse, its supporting production companies removing their distribution needs to other companies or under their own direction. On June 10, 1912, the assets of Independent Moving Pictures were transferred to the newly incorporated

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, which undertook to distribute for several of the departing Sales Company producers in continued opposition to the Edison trust. IMP was corporately dissolved but its name continued to be used as a brand name for Laemmle's productions.[4]

In 1913, Jack Cohn was put in charge of production at IMP's studio at Tenth Avenue and 59th Street, and he and his brother,

Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation which later became Columbia Pictures.[5]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Rose, Liza (April 29, 2012), "100 years ago, Fort Lee was the first town to bask in movie magic", The Star-Ledger, retrieved November 11, 2012
  2. Internet Movie Database
    .
  3. ^ New York Times, December 1, 1912, "How Carl Laemmle Succeeded In Breaking The Moving Picture Trust," p. SM 14.
  4. ^ "IMP Sells to Universal". The Moving Picture World. June 29, 1912. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "Jack Cohn Dead; Film Pioneer, 67". The New York Times. December 10, 1956. p. 31. Retrieved January 10, 2021.

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