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32-634: Keith was born in Hillsboro Bridge , New Hampshire . He joined the circus (as a "candy butcher") after attending Van Amburgh Circus 's and then worked at Bunnell's Museum in New York City in the early 1860s. He later joined P.T. Barnum and then joined the Doris and Forepaugh Circus. In 1883, Keith and William Austin (later of the Austin and Stone's Dime Museum ) opened a curiosity museum in

64-764: A continuous show. He quickly expanded his theater business, acquiring the Providence Museum in 1887 ( Providence, Rhode Island ), Low's Opera House (Providence) in 1888, the Bijou ( Philadelphia ) in 1888, and Union Square Theatre ( New York City ) in 1893. In 1894, he opened Keith's Theatre in Boston. In 1900, he purchased the Princess Theatre in London . In 1906, Keith merged his New York and New Jersey theatres with Frederick Freeman Proctor , but dissolved

96-463: A contract with Biograph Studios in 1896 which lasted until July 1905 when they switched to Edison Studios as their supplier of motion pictures . Keith withdrew from business in 1909 and married for a second time on October 29, 1913, to Ethel Bird Chase (1887–1971). She was 26 years old and Keith was 67. Her father was P. B. Chase, owner of Chase's Theater in Washington, D.C. Keith died at

128-619: A notable director, or even one above average. Nor did the Edison films show the sense of dynamic progress, that one gets, from studying the Biograph films, on a year-by-year basis. On the contrary, there is a sense of stagnation. However, new restorations and screenings of Edison films in recent years contradict Everson's statement; indeed, Everson citing The Land Beyond the Sunset points out creativity at Edison beyond Porter and Collins, as it

160-607: A vacant storefront on Washington Street in Boston . The establishment went by a number of names, including the Hub Museum, New York Museum, Gaiety Hall, and the Gaiety Museum. Its first attraction was an undersized 3 month old child known as "Baby Alice". After two weeks, Austin left the partnership and was replaced by Dan Gardner. Later that year, Keith expanded the museum to include a 123 seat theater. The theater hosted

192-415: A variety of events, but vaudeville was the most popular and eventually replaced the museum. The theatre was one of the early adopters of the continuous variety show which ran from 10:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night, every day. Previously, shows ran at fixed intervals with several hours of downtime between shows. With the continuous show, you could enter the theatre at any time, and stay until you reached

224-596: Is Thompson Hill, at 1,768 feet (539 m) above sea level, in the northern part of town. Hillsborough is drained by the Contoocook River and its tributaries, Beards and Sand brooks. Part of Franklin Pierce Lake is in the southwest. The town lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed . As of the census of 2010, there were 6,011 people, 2,392 households, and 1,614 families residing in

256-540: Is a rail trail . According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 44.7 square miles (115.8 km ), of which 43.7 square miles (113.2 km ) are land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km ) are water, comprising 2.24% of the town. The town center, or census-designated place , has a total area of 1.9 square miles (5.0 km ). The highest point in Hillsborough

288-511: Is part of School Administrative Unit (SAU) 34. Public schools serving the community of Hillsboro include: Edison Studios Edison Studios was an American film production organization , owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison . The studio made close to 1,200 films, as part of the Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and then Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918), until

320-482: The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1895, he was replaced as director of production by cameraman William Heise , then from 1896 to 1903, by James H. White . When White left to supervise Edison's European interests in 1903, he was replaced by William Markgraf (1903–1904), then Alex T. Moore (1904–1909), and Horace G. Plimpton (1909–1915). The first commercially exhibited motion pictures in

352-547: The B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre opened in Boston. Keith Academy and Keith Hall in Lowell, Massachusetts were named for his family in 1926. His son, A. Paul Keith died without an heir and left the family money to Cardinal William O'Connell . Hillsborough, New Hampshire Hillsborough , frequently spelled Hillsboro , is a town in Hillsborough County , New Hampshire , United States. The population

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384-553: The Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx . Thomas Edison himself played no direct part in the making of his studios' films, beyond being the owner and appointing William Gilmore as vice-president and general manager. Edison's assistant William Kennedy Dickson , who supervised the development of Edison's motion picture system, produced the first Edison films intended for public exhibition, 1893–95. After Dickson's departure for

416-721: The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida in 1914. After his son, A. Paul Keith , died in 1918, control of the company went to Albee. In 1928, the B. F. Keith Circuit merged with the Orpheum Circuit to form the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) corporation in Marysville, Washington . In a few months, this organization became the major motion picture studio Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO). Also in 1928

448-762: The General Film Company . The Motion Picture Patents Co. and the General Film Co. were found guilty of antitrust violation in October 1915, and were dissolved. The breakup of the Trust by federal courts, under monopoly laws, and the loss of European markets during World War I , hurt Edison financially. Edison sold its film business, including the Bronx studio, on 30 March 1918, to the Lincoln & Parker Film Company , of Massachusetts . Some of

480-820: The Union Square Theatre in New York City, and it was the site of the first American exhibition of the Lumière Cinématographe. They had obtained the exclusive American rights to the Lumière apparatus and their film output, and the first showing was on June 29, 1896. They then opened theatres in Philadelphia , and Boston , and then smaller theatres in the East and Midwest of the United States, buying out rival smaller chains. They signed

512-565: The United Booking Office control over 100 theaters. In 1911, the United Booking Office reached and agreement with Martin Beck , which gave the United Booking Office control of vaudeville theaters in the east and Beck's Orpheum Circuit control of the west. In 1912, Keith purchased Williams's eight New York City theaters (Bronx, Greenpoint, Gotham, Crescent, Bushwick, Colonial , Orpheum , and Alhambra ). Albee and Keith operated

544-519: The United States were from Edison, and premiered at a Kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14, 1894. The program consisted of ten short films, each less than a minute long, of athletes, dancers, and other performers. After competitors began exhibiting films on screens, Edison introduced its own, Projecting Kinetoscope , in late 1896. The earliest productions were brief "actualities", showing everything, from acrobats, to parades, to fire calls. But, competition from French and British story films, in

576-653: The early 1900s, rapidly changed the market. By 1904, 85% of Edison's sales were from story films. In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers. The "Edison Trust", as it was nicknamed, was made up of Edison, Biograph, Essanay Studios , Kalem Company , George Kleine Productions , Lubin Studios , Georges Méliès , Pathé , Selig Studios , and Vitagraph Studios , and dominated distribution through

608-423: The end point on a line that once stretched in an arc from Nashua to Concord, New Hampshire . The rails in Hillsborough were torn up in 1979. Hillsborough was once home to an iconic railroad covered bridge and a curved wooden trestle . The bridge burned due to arson in 1985, and the trestle was dismantled shortly thereafter. The Hillsborough Branch now ends at Bennington ; the line from Bennington to Hillsborough

640-420: The estimated median annual income for a household in the town was $ 54,386, and the median income for a family was $ 67,621. Male full-time workers had a median income of $ 43,583 versus $ 32,030 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 23,232. About 7.1% of families and 11.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over. Hillsborough

672-515: The house is today a museum owned by the state and operated by the Hillsborough Historical Society. A cluster of five stone arch bridges built during the 19th century in Hillsborough is designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark . Railroad service was supplied to Hillsborough by the Boston and Maine Railroad from 1878 to 1972. Rail service north to Henniker ceased in 1942, and Hillsborough became

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704-698: The partnership five years later. On February 11, 1907, Keith and Proctor formed the United Booking Office of America with New York theater owners Percy G. Williams and Oscar Hammerstein . The two sides maintained ownership of their respective theaters and agreed not to compete with each other. In 1909, Keith, Proctor, Williams, and Hammerstein formed the United Theatres Securities Co. with fellow theater owners Harry Davis of Pittsburgh , Michael Shea of Toronto , P. B. Chase of Washington, D.C. , James H. Moore of Rochester, New York , and James C. Duffield and James Dyment of Canada . This gave

736-409: The point in the show where you arrived. In 1883, Keith hired E. F. Albee as an assistant. Albee later became Keith's general manager and business partner. In 1884, George G. Batcheller replaced Gardner and the museum was expanded once again. In 1886, Keith and Batcheller obtained a lease on Boston's Bijou Theatre . The following year, Keith took sole proprietorship of the theater and began running

768-405: The population. There were 2,392 households, out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were headed by married couples living together, 11.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.5% were non-families. 24.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.5% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

800-671: The studio's closing in 1918. Of that number, 54 were feature length , and the remainder were shorts . All of the company's films have fallen into the public domain because they were released before 1928. The first production facility was Edison's Black Maria studio, in West Orange, New Jersey , built in the winter of 1892–93. The second facility, a glass-enclosed rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan 's entertainment district, opened in 1901. In 1907, Edison had new facilities built, on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place, in

832-514: The studio's notable productions include The Kiss (1896); The Great Train Robbery (1903); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910); Frankenstein (1910), the first film adaptation of the novel; The Battle of Trafalgar (1911); What Happened to Mary (1912), one of the earliest film serials ; and The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912), which was directed by Harold M. Shaw and

864-448: The town. The population density was 137.9 inhabitants per square mile (53.2/km ). There were 2,896 housing units at an average density of 66.4 per square mile (25.6/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 96.4% White , 0.6% Black or African American , 0.3% Native American , 0.6% Asian , 0.03% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 0.3% some other race , and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of

896-401: Was 2.51, and the average family size was 2.98. In the town, the population was spread out, with 24.8% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 29.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.3 males. For the period 2007–2011,

928-636: Was 5,939 at the 2020 census . The town is home to Fox State Forest and part of Low State Forest. The main village of the town, where 2,156 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Hillsborough census-designated place (CDP), and is located along the Contoocook River at the junction of New Hampshire Route 149 with Henniker Street and Main Street. The town also includes the villages of Hillsborough Center, Hillsborough Upper Village, Hillsborough Lower Village, and Emerald Lake Village. The town

960-628: Was first granted in 1735 by Jonathan Belcher , colonial governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as "Number Seven", one in a line of nine Massachusetts towns set up as defense barriers against Indian attacks. The towns were renamed after the border between the two provinces was fixed in 1739, placing the towns in New Hampshire. Settled in 1741, the town was granted in 1748 by Governor Benning Wentworth as "Hillsborough", named for Sir Wills Hill , Earl of Hillsborough . It would be incorporated in 1772 by Governor John Wentworth . Hillsborough

992-729: Was later described by film historian William K. Everson as "'the screen's first genuinely lyrical film'". The company also produced a number of short " Kinetophone " sound films in 1913–1914 using a sophisticated acoustical recording system capable of picking up sound from 30 feet away. They released a number of Raoul Barré cartoon films in 1915 and the first film version of the Robert Louis Stevenson historical novel Kidnapped . Everson, calling Edison Studios "financially successful and artistically unambitious," wrote that other than directors Edwin S. Porter and John Hancock Collins , [T]he Edison studios never turned out

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1024-620: Was the birthplace of Franklin Pierce , the 14th president of the United States and the only president from New Hampshire. The Pierce Homestead was built in 1804 (the year of his birth) by his father, Benjamin Pierce , a general in the Revolutionary War , and twice governor of New Hampshire. Restored in 1925, the home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places ,

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