Art-O-Graf

[1] Four time Academy Awards nominee Vernon L. Walker started his career as the head cameraman for the company.

[5] Board of Directors: Alden Van Epps Wessels (owner of the Steamboat Springs Orphium Theatre), Clay Henry Monson, M. Jay Casey, Otis B. Thayer, Gretchen Wood, Lucius Alfred Dick (son of Ohio Senator Charles William Frederick Dick), and David Townsend.

In July, 1920 the company was sued for $3,000 in the Supreme Court for breach of contract by Frederick W. Eichorn, scenario writer, who had written a 15-episode serial script, Rado the Invisible, in which Anna Luther was to star.

[6] In September, 1921 M. Jay Casey was arrested in Durango, Colorado for passing a fraudulent check.

Her driver had wrecked their car into another automobile causing injury to the three passengers, after which Mrs. Wood’s home was searched and 17 cases of liquor were found.

The Art-O-Graf Film Company advertising Miss Arizona .
(Left to right: H. Haller Murphy, Man, Man, Woman, David Townsend, Gretchen Wood, Dog, M. Jay Casey, Man, Vida Johnson, Man, Woman, Vernon L. Walker, Otis B. Thayer)
Art-O-Graf Stock Certificate.
(Signed by L. Linderman and Gretchen Wood)