11 Facts About Vitagraph

Vitagraph Studios, known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio.

Company's first claim to fame came from newsreels: Vitagraph cameramen were on the scene to film events from the Spanish–American War of 1898.

In 1897, Vitagraph produced The Humpty Dumpty Circus, which was the first film to use the stop-motion technique.

Vitagraph was not the only company seeking to make money from Edison's motion picture inventions, and Edison's lawyers were very busy in the 1890s and 1900s filing patents and suing competitors for patent infringement.

American Vitagraph Company made many contributions to the history of movie-making.

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In 1911, Vitagraph produced the first aviation film, The Military Air-Scout, directed by William J Humphrey, with future General of the Air Force Hap Arnold as the stunt flier.

V-L-S-E was dissolved on August 17,1916, when Vitagraph purchased a controlling interest in Lubin, Selig, and Essanay.

Vitagraph's leading star of the post-World War I period was comedian Larry Semon.

Vitagraph had joined the studio in 1916 as a writer and director, but soon became a star in a steady stream of comedy shorts.

Vitagraph's films were so profitable that Vitagraph gave Semon a free hand in making them, but Semon became so extravagant in staging the films that the expenses nearly broke the company.

Semon's relationship with Vitagraph became strained when the company insisted that Semon finance the films himself, and he left for Educational Pictures in 1923.