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The Powers Company
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Type of Company
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Production company
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Country of Origination
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United States of America |
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Years of Operation
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Active October 1909 through circa 1917
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Company Principals
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P.A. ‘Pat’ Powers
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Company Offices
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241st Street and Richardson Avenue, New York, New York, USA (circa 1910)
Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA
California, USA
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Company Studios
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[?] Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA? (circa 1909-1910)
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The Powers Company became a production unit of The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, on 8 June 1912.
References: MovPicWorld-19100108 p. 20.
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[The Moving Picture World, 8 January 1910, page 20] A trade paper headed a misleading paragraph last week with the words, “Has Powers Got Enough?” Evidently the writer did not know the genial “Pat” Powers, or else he wilfully tried to convey a damaging impression of the company of which “Pat” in the head. The paragraph says that P.A. Powers has “got his fill of the manufacturing business and gone home to Buffalo.” It is true that Mr. Powers went to Buffalo, where he has other interests that occasionally require his attention, but so far from him being “tired” of the manufacturing business, he says that he is only commencing. Extensive alterations and improvements are being made in the Powers Company factory at Wakefield, and this week a contract was let to Mr. Willard, of the Cooper Hewitt Company, for an equipment of Cooper Hewitt lights that will run into thousands of dollars. The bustle and activity and new Blood around the Powers place indicate anything but a tired feeling.
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