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Powers Picture Plays, initially Powers Company, was an American film company from the silent film era, which was responsible for the production of 839 films between 1909 and 1923, in addition to the distribution of 19 films between 1909 and 1932.
Irving Cummings was a leading man at the studio. [1] Thomas Evans was the studio's general manager. [2]
In 1909, the company was formed by Patrick "Pat" Anthony Powers (1869–1948), as Powers Company, with an office in Wakefield, New York and, still in 1909, Powers and Irving Cummings opened a new studio in Mount Vernon, New York, near the Bronx, with Joseph A. Golden as director and Ludwig G. B. Erb as cameraman, and some films have been produced.
In 1910 the Powers Company changed its name to Powers Picture Plays, and Joseph A. Golden was one of its first directors.
In 1911 it announced an adaptation of Gunga Din from the Rudyard Kipling poem, a production titled The Awakening of Galatea from "the story of Pygmalion's Strange Love", and a Nat M. Wills in a "Happy Tramp" comedy film. [3]
In 1912, Powers Picture merged to form Universal Pictures. Universal was formed in 1912 by the emergence of the Rex Film Company, American division of Éclair, Nestor Film Company, Powers Picture Plays, The Champion Film Company, Yankee Film Company (that quickly evolved into the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), and New York Motion Picture Company.[ citation needed] Even after 1912, Powers Picture films were still being credited but were distributed by Universal. Mexican Border Defenders was shot in New Mexico in 1912.