THE MIRROR FILM COMPANY, CLIFFORD B. HARMON AND OTHER BOARD OFFICERS 1915: "EXECUTIVE BOARD WILL CONTROL MIRROR"

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As many of you know, Clifford B. Harmon tried his hand at movie-making via the MIRROR FILM COMPANY a.k.a. Mirror Films.  (You can read more about that here.)

Here's a 1915 article from MOTOGRAPHY about the company---and the officers. Click on the images and links below....AND THERE'S A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON TWO OF THE OFFICERS at this time as well.

In a nutshell, Mirror Films Incorporated was a short-lived motion picture company producing films from late 1915 to early 1917. Their stated purpose was to bring business practices to bear on motion picture production in order to make a profit, to "look upon film...as so much canned product"....You can read more here.

AN ADDITIONAL POST ON THEIR LONG ISLAND FACILITY WILL SOON FOLLOW.

In 1915, here's a brief bio on two of the officers:

--ANDRES DE SERUGOLA--He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company between 1901 and 1920 and later appeared in many films. He appeared as himself in the 1928 romantic comedy film The Cardboard Lover.  Towards the end of his career at the Metropolitan Opera, De Segurola also became an impresario.  After his retirement from the stage, he taught singing. Amongst his many pupils was Deanna Durbin. READ MORE HERE.

--RICHARD G. HOLLAMAN--President of the Eden Musée, an amusement house and musical theatre on New York's twenty-third street. The Eden Musée was founded in 1883 in imitation of London's Madame Tussaud's waxworks, and in the 1890s was run by Englishman Richard G. Hollaman, who first introduced moving pictures as an attraction at the Musée by installing Charles Chinnock's imitation Kinetoscopes in 1895. Moving pictures on a screen came via the Lumière Cinématographe on 18 December 1896. Making a logical step from waxworks of the famous to moving images of the same, the Eden Musée became the pre-eminent showcase for the new art in America.  READ MORE HERE.