Biograph Studios

The set-up was similar to Thomas Edison's "Black Maria" in West Orange, New Jersey, being mounted on circular tracks to be able to get the best possible sunlight.

Griffith found and developed for the company stars such as Florence Lawrence, Blanche Sweet, Mary Pickford, the Gish sisters - Lillian and Dorothy, Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Mabel Normand, Harry Carey, Owen Moore, Robert Harron and director Mack Sennett.

[2] Griffith left Biograph in October 1913,[3] a few months after the company had begun moving its Manhattan operations to new, state-of-the-art facilities at 807 East 175th Street in The Bronx, another borough of New York City.

However, the studio facilities principal activity in that decade was the production of shorts for Universal, Columbia, and RKO, mostly involving New York-based actors and entertainers.

[31] The 1960 pilot episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Head of the Family, was filmed at Gold Medal Studios.

[35] The television series Naked City, Car 54, Where Are You?, and East Side/West Side, and movies such as The Incident, and John and Mary were filmed there.