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American film production company
Bluebird Photoplays
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| Bluebird Photoplays
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Industry
| Film
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Predecessor
| Independent Moving Pictures
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Defunct
| Branding ceased in the 1920s
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Fate
| Universal Branding abandoned
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Successor
| Universal
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Headquarters
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Number of locations
| 2
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Area served
| Worldwide
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Products
| Motion pictures
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Owner
| Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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Parent
| Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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Bluebird Photoplays
(Bluebird Photoplays of New York, Inc. and Bluebird Photoplays of New England, Inc.
[1]
) was an American film production company that filmed at
Universal Pictures
studios in California and New Jersey,
[2]
and distributed its films via
Universal Pictures
during the
silent film
era. It had a $500,000 studio in New Jersey.
[2]
"It was a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and employed Universal stars (and starlets) and used Universal’s facilities but the pictures were marketed independently from
Carl Laemmle
’s umbrella company."?Anke Brouwers
[3]
Mary MacLaren
, was one of its stars.
[4]
Louise Lovely
, an actress from Australia, was one of its stars.
[5]
Bluebird was a prestige brand for Universal and had a core of actors and directors including Lovely who worked for it.
[6]
[7]
Ida May Park
directed for
Bluebird Photoplays
.
Elsie Jane Wilson
produced and directed for
Bluebird Photoplays
.
[8]
Among those who worked for this short-lived subsidiary of Universal are
Carmel Myers
,
Mae Murray
,
Rudolph Valentino
,
Tod Browning
,
Rex Ingram
,
[9]
Robert Z. Leonard
and
Rupert Julian
.
[10]
Louis B. Mayer
invested in the company.
[1]
M. H. Hoffman managed the company.
[2]
Filmography
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Gallery
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See also
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- ^
a
b
United States Board of Tax Appeals (16 May 1928).
Reports of the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals, Volume 11
. U.S. Government Printing Office
. Retrieved
11 April
2022
.
- ^
a
b
c
"M. H. Hoffman talks on Bluebird"
.
The Moving Picture World
. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1916. p. 402
. Retrieved
11 April
2022
.
- ^
Brouwers, Anke (2015-07-04).
"Only Whoop Dee Do Songs. Bluebird Photoplays Light(en) Up the Cinema Ritrovato ? Photogenie"
.
Cinea
. Archived from
the original
on 11 April 2022
. Retrieved
11 April
2022
.
- ^
The Mysterious Mrs. M
(1917)
- ^
Delamoir, Marie Jeanette (2004).
"Louise Lovely, Bluebird Photoplays, and the Star System"
.
The Moving Image
.
4
(2): 64?85.
doi
:
10.1353/mov.2004.0025
.
JSTOR
41167168
.
S2CID
194017782
.
- ^
Delamoir, Marie Jeanette (9 October 2012).
"Louise Lovely's Bluebird Photoplays"
.
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
. Retrieved
11 April
2022
.
The National Film and Sound Archive's festival of Spring Silents 2012 season 'Silent Screwball' at Arc Cinema, Canberra, Australia
- ^
Kennedy, Cris (4 August 2014).
"Arc Cinema: Sense of closure hard to accept"
.
The Canberra Times
. Retrieved
11 April
2022
.
- ^
"Ella Hall in 'New Love for Old' Produced by Elsie Jane Wilson"
.
Motion Picture Weekly
. New York: Motion Picture Weekly Publishing Co. 1918-02-02
. Retrieved
10 April
2022
.
via archive.org
- ^
The Chalice of Sorrow
- ^
Lewinsky, Mariann.
"Beloved Bluebirds | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival"
.
Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival
. Retrieved
11 April
2022
.
- ^
based on the play
Jeanne Dore
(1913)
- ^
"Bluebird Photo-Plays"
.
British Film Institute
. Archived from
the original
on December 1, 2020.
References
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- Blonski, Annette; Creed, Barbara; Freiberg, Freda (1987).
Don't Shoot Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia
. Spinifex Press.
ISBN
978-0-864-36058-8
.
- Delamoir, Marie Jeanette (January 1998). "Styling a star: 'Call her Louise Lovely'
".
Journal of Australian Studies
.
22
(58): 48?55.
doi
:
10.1080/14443059809387401
.
- Delamoir, Marie Jeanette (2002).
Louise Lovely: The Construction of a Star
(Thesis). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:
La Trobe University
.
- Delamoir, Marie Jeanette (2004).
"Louise Lovely, Bluebird Photoplays, and the Star System"
.
The Moving Image
.
4
(2): 64?85.
doi
:
10.1353/mov.2004.0025
.
JSTOR
41167168
.
S2CID
194017782
.
- Cooper, Mark Garrett (2010).
"Tackling Universal Women as a Research Problem: What Historiographic Sources Do and Don't Tell Us about "Gender" in the Silent Motion Picture Studio"
.
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
.
51
(2): 334?342.
doi
:
10.1353/frm.2010.a402494
.
ISSN
0306-7661
.
JSTOR
41549236
.
S2CID
145793482
.
- Irikura, Yuki (October 2020).
"Enchanting the Hearts of Taisho Japan: Why did Japanese Audiences Fall for the Films of Bluebird Photoplays?"
(PDF)
.
Waseda RILAS Journal
.
8
. Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences,
Waseda University
.
ISSN
2187-8307
.
NAID
120006952940
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