Itinerant filmmaker

The filmmakers hoped to cash in on the vanity of politicians, high-society types and prominent businessmen and their families.

It was also common for the local chamber of commerce to pay the production expenses and choose the backdrop and locations for filming.

One hallmark of Lamb's operation would be to offer a reward of a five-dollar gold piece to the person who came up with title for the film.

[2] Richard Norman made a film entitled The Wrecker over 40 times in various cities in the Midwest and South between 1915 and 1919.

He established Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida in 1919 and found success making "race films."

His claims of working with Mack Sennett and Mary Pickford are not backed up by his Internet Movie Database biography.

His Kidnapper's Foil was filmed dozens of times between the 1930s and 1970s, making him possibly the last of his kind and even attempted to move into television.