Abstract
During the late 1910s about one fifth of all movies worldwide were made in Chicago. There were two major film factories on the north side of the city: Selig Polyscope, run by ‘Colonel’ William Selig, a showbiz impresario forged out of the P.T. Barnum mould; and Essanay Studios, founded by businessman George Spoor and former Selig employee William Anderson, better known as cowboy star ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson (the studio name came from their initials, ‘S and A’).
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