Emerald Motion Picture Company (Chicago, Illinois)
| film/video production studio/facility
USA /
Illinois /
Chicago /
Chicago, Illinois /
North Wells Street, 1717-1729
World
/ USA
/ Illinois
/ Chicago
film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object
Emerald Motion Picture Company
1717-1729 N. Wells St., Chicago
Active ca 1917-1919
Motion Picture rental studio occupying a three-story building with stage, offices, dressing rooms, film laboratory, shipping department, carpentry shop. The stage measured 125 x 70 and 50 feet high and could accommodate 6 productions and 20 sets simultaneously. It also boasted a state of the art electrical and lighting system, and film laboratory.
As of 1917 the owners of the company were Frederick J. Ireland and M.E. Oberdorfer.
In 1919 Emerald merged with 4 other companies becoming Reelcraft Pictures Corp. and relocating to 1107 Bronson Ave. in Hollywood. Frederick Ireland emerged as Vice President in charge of Production.
1717-1729 N. Wells St., Chicago
Active ca 1917-1919
Motion Picture rental studio occupying a three-story building with stage, offices, dressing rooms, film laboratory, shipping department, carpentry shop. The stage measured 125 x 70 and 50 feet high and could accommodate 6 productions and 20 sets simultaneously. It also boasted a state of the art electrical and lighting system, and film laboratory.
As of 1917 the owners of the company were Frederick J. Ireland and M.E. Oberdorfer.
In 1919 Emerald merged with 4 other companies becoming Reelcraft Pictures Corp. and relocating to 1107 Bronson Ave. in Hollywood. Frederick Ireland emerged as Vice President in charge of Production.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°54'51"N 87°38'4"W
- Former Path of Ogden Avenue 1.5 km
- A Century of Progress site 5.4 km
- Former Site of the Union Stock Yards 10 km
- Former Hawthorne Works 11 km
- World's Columbian Exposition site 14 km
- Clarke 38 km
- Original Tolleston 42 km
- Maynard 42 km
- The Patch 43 km
- Original Liverpool 48 km
- Old Town 0.7 km
- Sandburg Village 0.7 km
- North Avenue Beach 0.9 km
- Gold Coast 1.1 km
- Cabrini-Green 1.6 km
- Lincoln Park 1.6 km
- Near North Side 1.8 km
- Goose Island 1.8 km
- Goose Island Neighborhood 2 km
- West Town 3.3 km