Essanay Studios

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Permalink Reply by Kate Steere on August 21, 2009 at 1:51pm

some links regarding Essanay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essanay_Studios
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/essanay.html
http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2009/01/essanay-studios.html

Richard Foster Baker on IMDB, most movies produced by Essanay:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048864/

For now I am going with the assumption that Richard Foster Baker is the same Richard F Baker who was married to Geraldine Lodge(aka Camille D'Elmar).

Permalink Reply by Myss Story on August 21, 2009 at 3:52pm

Hi Kate,

here's a funny bit I found on Google books : quote "These subtitles must be crisp and concise and absolutely boiled down, so there will not be one superfluous word. There should be no straining for comedy effects. Mr. (Richard Foster) Baker tried to improve my text, and very often the sub-titles would become involved and all together too long...." end quote. From "Letters of George Ade".

George Ade was a popular humorist for a while I read some of his writings when I was a tadpole, time to look them up again. The Studio used some of his fables as film subjects. Heh heh, every creative profession has to watch the toes of adjoining ones!