Vintage Movie Resources
Olive Fuller Golden (1916) 🇺🇸
Agnes Egan Cobb — New Era in State Right Features (1916) 🇺🇸
State Right feature films failed, as a business proposition, under the old plan, is the belief of Agnes Egan Cobb, because the idea was based upon a purely speculative foundation. The element of money was predominant, irrespective of intrinsic quality. You put down so much money, made a big picture and then asked people to buy it simply because it was a big and costly thing. You didn’t consider whether the exhibitor and the public wanted the picture. You erred in the conclusion that money could replace experience, judgment, taste and demand. Quality, not money, gets people to the box office.
Claridge Films, Inc., has been formed to place the state right feature film business on a sound [Transcriber’s Note: Text illegible] and logical basis. One of the most experienced film buyers in the world, Mrs. Agnes Egan Cobb, is the vice-president and general manager of the new company, which has a financial backing and the active co-operation of several experienced film men.
For seven years Mrs. Cobb has been buying and distributing film, and is perhaps in as good position as anybody to gauge the needs of exhibitors and the public.

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Horsley for Congress
Pioneer will make race in Los Angeles Congressional District and has wide support.
David Horsley, one of the pioneers who have become pillars of the motion picture industry, is about to be nominated for Congress by the citizens of the Congressional District in which the city of Los Angeles is situated. At this writing no details are at hand to show on what ticket Mr. Horsley will make the race.
Advices from the coast are to the effect that the support of Mr. Horsley will be strong and wide. It is remembered that Mr. Horsley took a very conspicuous share in combating the prejudice and hostility with which the first moving picture men were met on the spot which today has become their paradise. In the course of this work Mr. Horsley displayed a splendid civic spirit and showed a most pronounced aptitude for public affairs. He indeed became part of the civic life of what may be called the motion picture center of the United States and his persistent “booming” of the city of Los Angeles and the wonderful California climate made him very popular with everybody including the native sons. His saying that the motion picture men came to California to bring their forces and their studios and that they asked nothing in return but the sunshine of California is often quoted by his hosts of friends. If at this day the prominent men of Los Angeles and Southern California are motion picture advocates, not to say enthusiasts, Mr. Horsley has had something to do with the change of heart. At present Mr. Horsley is chairman of the reception committee of the Los Angeles Board of Trade. In the course of the last year Mr. Horsley has entertained Vice-President Marshall, U. S. Senators, Congressmen and Governors of various States, and has in a tactful and very effective way made these prominent people acquainted not alone with his own studio, but with the whole motion picture colony. In this way he has not only gained their good will, but has given them a lot of valuable information which they could never have obtained otherwise. Mr. Horsley has been in the forefront in the fight against local censorship in Los Angeles.
Mr. Horsley has all of the qualifications requisite for success in public life and no man in or out of Congress has a firmer grasp on motion picture conditions than he has. He is an able and fluent speaker as he has shown on many occasions to the delight of all who heard him. He also has the rare gift of humor and has it in a marked degree. It makes no great demand on the imagination to picture Mr. Horsley as the successful and dependable champion of the motion picture interests on the floor of the lower house of Congress.
Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1916
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see also
Estelle Mardo, Mirror Star (1916) 🇺🇸
Edward J. Brady (1916) 🇺🇸
Virginia Norden Now With Vitagraph (1916) 🇺🇸
Virginia Hammond (1916) 🇺🇸
Webster Campbell Now With Vitagraph (1916) 🇺🇸
Mae Gaston with Horsley (1916) 🇺🇸
Miss June Elvidge (1916) 🇺🇸
Ambrosio Comes Back (1916) 🇺🇸
Waldo Walker Becomes Assistant Director (1916) 🇺🇸
Mina Jeffries (1916) 🇺🇸
Winifred Kingston (1916) 🇺🇸
Gasnier Forms Producing Company (1916) 🇺🇸
Louis J. Gasnier has launched a new producing corporation, which will release films through Pathé
Betty Howe, Latest Vitagrapher (1916) 🇺🇸
Henry Kolker (1916) 🇺🇸
Helen Greene (1916) 🇺🇸
William T. Carleton (1916) 🇺🇸
Mirror Engages Ione Bright (1916) 🇺🇸
Ione Bright is slated to star in a number of ingénue roles in future pictures
