One-hour documentary recounts the untold story of the remarkable rise and fall of the Thanhouser Studio, one of American | dG1fbUtDV1ZBTFJOemc
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00:00The
00:24Fanhauser Film Studio in New Rochelle, New York made over 1,000 films in under 8 years.
00:33They featured the period's most popular stars and used cutting-edge special effects.
00:43At their peak, Fanhauser Films accounted for roughly one-quarter of all the independent
00:48films made in the U.S.
00:54And then suddenly, the studio disappeared.
00:59Growing up, my father told me that my grandfather was in the early motion picture industry,
01:04but he destroyed all of the negatives, and none of the films survived.
01:07I always wondered, what did they look like?
01:10What kind of films were they?
01:12Just imagine how surprised I was when I found some, and I saw how important and influential
01:17these films were in the early American cinema.