Thomas H. Persons (1916) 🇺🇸

Thomas H. Persons, superintendent of the Selig Jungle-Zoo, at Los Angeles, Calif., was recently snapped at a time when he was giving two automobile loads of Selig actors and actresses starting out on location the “once over.” Now that all the Selig players have been transferred to the Pacific Coast for the winter months, it keeps genial Tom hustling and adds to his already manifold responsibilities. Photographs of Mr. Persons are few and far between, but his many friends in Filmland will immediately recognize Tom’s smiling face.

By the way, Tom recently granted an interview to Charles Van Loan of Collier’s Weekly, in which he told Van Loan new facts anent the operations of the first motion picture company ever working in California. William N. Selig, president of the Selig Company, had an idea that the Golden State, with its perpetual sunshine, would be an ideal locality for motion picture production, and he sent the late Francis Boggs to Los Angeles.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, January 1916

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see also

• Adrien Avare, Colorist (1916)
• Madeline Traverse (1916)