Credit: Courtesy of the Theater Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
In 1912 Lubin opened his Betzwood Motion Picture Studio on 350 acres northwest of Philadelphia. Here he constructed studios and sets, including this western town, for the production of silent films. Lubin produced more than 100 films at Betzwood before the Lubin Manufacturing Company went out of business in 1917. Few of them have survived. By 2006, twenty-nine Betzwood films had been located in archives in the United States and Europe.
