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Variety, New York, August 14, 1914.

Looking Back By Thomas H. Ince

      Noted Director Tells How He Made His Start in

      Motion Pictures

      SO MANY and drastic have been the changes – so swift

has been the advancement – of the motion picture

industry during the past ten years, that it staggers me when I recall

what it was like when I entered it, and then reflect on

what it is today. (...) 

      Upon my return in to New York, I resigned from the Imp

when I learned that there was a possibility of my being

engaged by Messrs. Kessel and Baumann. They wanted to send

a director to the coast to make pictures at their little

Edendale plant. (...)

      Abandoning the brand name „Bison,“ we changed

the name of our plays to „Broncho.“ And with

the subsequent increase in the number of weekly productions,

we adopted „Kay-Bee“ and „Domino.“

(...) Moving Picture World, March 10, 1917

„Emphatic denial“

Editorial content. „,NOTHING TO IT,‘ SAYS INCE.

      All the vague and conflicting rumors regarding the future

photoplay plans of Thomas H. Ince, general manager

and managing director of the New York Motion Picture Co. and

Mack Sennett, director and vice-president of the

Keystone (of which Ince is also an integral part financially),

were set to rest when Ince made emphatic denial

that he or Sennett were leaving the New York Company.

      To a VARIETY representative Wednesday

Ince said ,Sennett and I leave New York for Los Angeles

Sunday. We came to New York three weeks

ago to hold a conference with the company heads here

and to make a vaca(tion).‘“ (...) „,I am part owner

of the New York Co. and one of its officers, and it would be foolish

for me to entertain any other proposition.‘“ (...) „Ince

hinted the Keystone might add another comedy release

to its weekly program.“

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