The Immigrant Clippings 11/72
Motion Picture News, New York, June 16, 1917.
FREDERICK BURLINGHAM
(...) Photo, Motion Picture, New York, March 1915
„Not seen any Charlie Chaplins here since he left Keystone!“
Editorial content. „Germany Grasping Control
of Switzerland‘s Film Business
Frederick Burlingham, of Burlingham Films, Switzerland,
Says Germany Is Throttling Market – American
Films Popular There – ,Now Is The Time. Come in and Act.‘
AMONG many interesting points brought out
in a letter to Motion Picture News from Frederick Burlingham,
of the Burlingham Films, Switzerland, is the information
that Germany is creeping into that country and is attempting
to get a strangle hold on the film business. Now is the
time for American producers to get busy, enter Switzerland,
and have the market for themselves, he declares.
Mr. Burlingham‘s letter follows:
There is a loud cry over here for American films.“ (...)
„Being an American myself, I can say that
American manufacturers, however, remind one of the old
oaken bucket. They have got the real goods, but
have not enough enterprise to sell to people who want to buy.
And then people are asking what is the matter with
the American film industry! American enterprise! Why Mary
Pickford is unknown in Switzerland, and we have not
seen any Charlie Chaplins here since he left Keystone!“ (...)
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