Essanay Studios-historical location

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The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was a motion picture studio founded on August 10, 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, IL by George K. Spoor and Broncho Billy Anderson under the name Essanay ("S and A"). It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.

Essanay was originally located at 501 Wells Street (modern numbering: 1360 N. Wells). Essanay's first film, "An Awful Skate, or The Hobo on Rollers," starring Ben Turpin (then the studio janitor), produced for only a couple hundred dollars, grossed several thousand dollars in release. The studio prospered and eventually moved to its more famous address at 1333-45 W. Argyle St.

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