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Siegmund "Pop" Lubin seated in midst of his mispocha on occasion of his 61st birthday, April 20, 1912.
Credit: Courtesy of the Theater Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
After immigrating from Poland in 1876, Siegmund Lubin set up an optical shop on 8th Street in Philadelphia. In 1897, Lubin began to produce his own films. He would make more than 1,000 of them before the collapse of his studio in 1917.