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Charles O. Baumann (January 20, 1874 – July 18, 1931) was an American film producer, film studio executive, and pioneer in the motion picture industry.


Biography


Career

He was a partner in the Crescent Film Company formed in 1908 and in the Bison Life Motion Pictures production company formed in 1909. In 1912, he was a founder and the first president of Universal Film Manufacturing Company (now
Universal Studios Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ ...
). One of his most-successful companies was the
Keystone Film Company Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) and Charles ...
, the production unit headed by
Mack Sennett Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American film actor, director, and producer, and studio head, known as the 'King of Comedy'. Born in Danville, Quebec, in 1880, he started in films in the ...
, which produced the first films to feature Charlie Chaplin. Adam Kessel and Baumann's New York Motion Picture Company produced many films under a number of brand names, including Broncho, Domino and Kay-Bee Pictures. Other companies formed by Baumann include the 101 Bison Company and Reliance Motion Picture Corporation. In the mid-1910s, Kessel and Baumann also branched into film distribution with their Mutual Film Corporation, which later was absorbed into
Triangle Film Corporation Triangle Film Corporation (also known as Triangle Motion Picture Company) was a major American motion-picture studio, founded in July 1915 in Culver City, California and terminated 7 years later in 1922. History The studio was founded in July 1 ...
. Baumann continued in production in the early 1920s as a partner in the Kessel-Baumann Picture Corporation production company.The Moving Picture World
"Motion Picture Studios in California", March 10, 1917, p.1599-1612


Death

He died on July 18, 1931 of influenza in New York City.


References


Further reading


''The Moving Picture World''
archived issues at Media History Digital Library at archive.org * Lahue, Kalton (1971); ''Mack Sennett's Keystone: The Man, the Myth and the Comedies''; New York: Barnes & Co.; (p. 17-42, 64, 109, 155, 241, 242, 289) * MacGowan, Kenneth (1965); ''Behind The Screen: The History and Techniques of the Motion Picture''; New York: Dell Publishing Co. (pg.171, 175, 208)


External links



at Silent Era. Retrieved 2013-01-14. * * http://www.fortleefilm.org
Testimony of Charles O. Baumann
in the 1914 Federal hearings into the Motion Picture Patents Company. {{DEFAULTSORT:Baumann, Charles O. 1874 births 1931 deaths Businesspeople from New York City American film producers American film studio executives American people of Polish-Jewish descent Cinema pioneers American film production company founders NBCUniversal people