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Kay-Bee Pictures

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Poster for The Coward
Ad for The Redskin Duel, a re-release of The Death Mask (1914)

Kay-Bee Pictures, or Kessel and Baumann, was an American silent film studio, and part of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company's mottos included, "every picture a headliner" and "Kay-Bee stands for Kessel and Baumann and Kessel and Baumann stands for quality", referring to Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann.[1] It was party of the New York Motion Picture Company and was used after a settlement with rival Universal Pictures to end the film division named 101 Bison.[2] Anna Little was one of its stars.[3] Its executives included Thomas Ince.

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References

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  1. ^ "Motion Picture News". Motion Picture News Incorporated. December 21, 1912 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Tasker, Yvonne (August 19, 2004). The Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 9781134564941 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette". Amer. Company, Limited. December 21, 1913 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b Rubens, Alma (2015-03-21). Rhodes, Gary D.; Webb, Alexander (eds.). Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird: Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography. McFarland. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4766-1667-4.
  5. ^ Woods, Jeannine (2011). Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962. Peter Lang. p. 211. ISBN 978-3-03911-974-5.
  6. ^ Golden, Eve (2013-04-12). John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-8131-4163-3.
  7. ^ Gronmaier, Danny (2022-12-05). The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 250. ISBN 978-3-11-076039-2.