Independent filmmakers may have fled West to escape the MPPC - but it was a member of the Trust that made the first film ever made in Hollywood...

The owner of the sole existing print of J. Searle Dawley's Frankenstein left a gun on top of the film can...

D. W. Griffith's Ramona marked the first time a studio purchased the screen rights to a movie...

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this ancient Western is that its matter-of-fact depiction of a mixed-race marriage provoked no reaction from critics or audiences

Essanay marketed Broncho Billy to appeal to middle-class audiences while keeping his character firmly entrenched among the working class.