Industry | Motion picture exhibition, distribution and production |
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Founded | 1897 |
Defunct | 1925 |
Fate | Acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Subsequently folded into Warner Bros. |
Successor | The Vitaphone Corporation |
Headquarters | |
Products | Motion pictures, film distribution |
Parent | Independent (1914–1925) Warner Bros. (1925) |
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films.[1] It was bought by Warner Bros. in 1925.