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21-689: CMPC may refer to: California Motion Picture Corporation , a film company based in San Rafael, California CMPC (company) also known as "Compañía Manufacturera de Papeles y Cartones", a pulp and paper company company in Chile Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus , a militarized political organization in the Caucasus region, active between 1989 and 2000 Topics referred to by

42-469: A profit (likely due to second-string distribution channels), its favorable reception convinced Middleton that his wife could challenge the world's top movie star , Mary Pickford , and almost all CMPC movies had her as their star. Unfortunately, Michelena's ego expanded with the glowing reviews of her skill, and her demands for star treatment brought heavier expenses to productions that continued to lose money. Mignon , The Lily of Poverty Flat , A Phyllis of

63-405: A seven day engagement at San Francisco's Portola theater. The Chicago Tribune gave the film a mixed review: It is a picture of fire and beauty, full of Bret Harte's spirit of adventure and glorious with the wondrous country which he loved. ... in places it seems a bit hard emotionally; a bit crude, bordering on slapstick , in action. In places, the action is confused, due to its rapidity and

84-529: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages California Motion Picture Corporation The Marin County Library has a digital collection related to the studio. Their productions included Salomy Jane (1914), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914), Mignon (1915), and Who's Your Servant? (1920). Frank Erlanger was one of

105-668: The Russian River Michelena's dominant portrayal of the title role was also an appeal. Journalist Josephine Clifford McCracken wrote of her in the June 1915 issue of Overland Monthly : "Daughter of a renowned tenor of San Francisco's pioneer days, herself a prima donna with an assured place on the modern operatic stage, a girl with a wealth of artistic tradition behind her, Miss Michelena's gifts do not stop there. She has rare beauty, vivacity, wit, intellectual attainments and athletic grace." One CMPC shooting location

126-617: The St. Francis Hotel after the 1906 earthquake and fire . Middleton set up the California Motion Picture Company in San Rafael in 1912 for the purpose of shooting promotional footage of the automobiles he was selling. He determined that his pretty wife could star in movies made by his company. By 1914, Middleton and Michelena were making three major films at the same time. The first feature completed by CMPC

147-644: The CMPC. In rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era California , Salomy Jane is saved from the ruffian Baldwin by a heroic stranger (the Man, aka Jack Dart), and he is saved from a lynching after being falsely accused of a crime. Salomy Jane was first shown at an invitation-only, gala event on October 8, 1914 at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The film made its public debut a few weeks alter on October 25, when it played

168-628: The Sierras , Salvation Nell and The Rose of the Misty Pool all failed to turn a profit, and a lavish production of Faust which was in production in 1915 was given until the end of the year to be completed. Faust was not done by January 1916, and CMPC president Herbert Payne shut the film company down and filed for bankruptcy. Faust was never released. Middleton and Michelena bought the bankrupt film company for "a few thousand dollars" in 1917 and renamed it Michelena Studios. Their new company

189-575: The St. Francis Hotel; Baldwin Wood, attorney; Charles Payne, President Payne Real Estate Company; Thomas B. Eastland, President Coast Realty Co.; A. M. Johnson, Attorney; and Robin Y. Hayne, Capitalist as well as officer from a steamship company and Pacific Telephonen and Telegraph. It was billed as the largest film company in the west. Stage actress Michelena married George E. Middleton, a prominent San Francisco automobile dealer, on Sunday, March 3, 1907. The private wedding took place at 232 Divisadero Street,

210-420: The actors who worked for the studio. Salomy Jane survives in its entirety. George E. Middleton was a director with the studio and Beatriz Michelena a leading actress. Harold Entwistle and William Nigh also directed films for the company. An announcement of the company's incorporation gives a San Francisco main office address at 356 Pine Street and lists the board of directors as: James Woods, manager of

231-467: The home of the parents of bridesmaid Margaret McGovern, "a lifelong friend of the bride". The couple spent a few weeks in Los Angeles for their honeymoon. Middleton was the manager of the local Middleton Motor Car Company and the son of a California timber baron. He introduced Michelena to his society friends and business partners, including the trustees of Charles Crocker 's estate who had rebuilt

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252-574: The illusion of reality ... All California Motion Picture Corporation and Beatrice Michelena Studio films were believed to have been lost due to a 1931 studio fire in San Rafael, California , caused by a child's firecracker prank that destroyed the vault in which the films were stored. However, a print was found in Australia in 1996, and has been preserved by the Library of Congress . New 35mm prints began limited circulation in 2008. The restoration

273-435: The mid-1920s, though Middleton told the 1930 US Census that they were married. The union produced no children. Salomy Jane (1914 film) Salomy Jane is a 1914 silent Western drama film based on Bret Harte 's 1898 novella "Salomy Jane's Kiss" and Paul Armstrong's 1907 play based on Harte's story, Salomy Jane . Salomy Jane was California Motion Picture Corporation 's (CMPC) debut feature, as well as

294-479: The number of players concerned, but on the whole it is a pleasant thing to witness, in addition to its scenic wonders ... Variety magazine's opinion was more favorable: Here is a Western drama at its best. ... The scenario is a model of clarity, despite its emphasis on swift and frequent incident. ... It is all action, action and again action, with a thrill for every second flicker ... Beatriz Michelena and House Peters ... give their work every touch to strengthen

315-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CMPC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CMPC&oldid=1184869233 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

336-446: The screen debut of stage actress and singer Beatriz Michelena . George E. Middleton saw in his Latina wife a competitor to Mary Pickford as a premier screen star, and each CMPC production was intended to be a Michelena vehicle. Despite being well received by the public, it did not return a profit for the national distributor, Alco Films . It is the only known surviving complete work of silent film era actress Beatriz Michelena and

357-418: The telltale flapping of tablecloths and clothing blown by gusts. Considered expensive at the time, the company used a US$ 1,250 Bell & Howell movie camera, worth about $ 37,600 in current value. The camera held two reels of film so that two negatives were made of each scene. A second $ 700 camera provided a third reel of the same scene, from another perspective. Even though Salomy Jane did not return

378-466: Was Salomy Jane , screened initially at the St. Francis Hotel by invitation only. Michelena's role was Bret Harte 's Salomy Jane Clay, an energetic daughter of an emigrant miner. She is wooed by four men but prefers a fifth played by British heartthrob House Peters . The movie saw limited nationwide distribution and was judged a hit by viewers who were impressed by the wild California scenery: giant redwood trees , winding roads hugging rocky bluffs and

399-430: Was called Beatriz Michelena Features, and shooting began on their next feature-length film, Just Squaw . Michelena's lead character was a white woman raised by American Indians, a woman who does not realize her racial heritage until after she falls into forbidden love with a white man. The movie played for only a week in San Francisco in 1919, and did not return a profit. The moviemakers' new distributor, Robertson-Cole ,

420-492: Was on family property near Boulder Creek, California , where Middleton's father had established a timber holding now known as the Middleton Tract . Other filming locations included undeveloped portions of Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Marin counties. In San Rafael, the studio boasted a large glass-walled and -roofed building that let in light but not wind so that shooting for indoor scenes could take place in full light without

441-425: Was unable to find the right market for Heart of Juanita and The Flame of Hellgate in 1920. American audiences had grown more sophisticated, yet Michelena Studios was still employing their earlier production techniques. After shooting The Flame of Hellgate , Middleton and Michelena stopped making movies altogether. She returned to her singing performances and he returned to his car sales. They reportedly divorced in

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