Star Film Company

The event, held in a room at 14 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris with one hundred chairs and an entry price of ₣1, demonstrated the practicality of film cameras and projectors.

The company moved to San Antonio looking for warmer winters and leased 20 acres including a two-story house and large barn that became the Star Film Ranch movie studio.

[5] The studio had actors Edith Storey, Francis Ford, and William Clifford under contract along with writer Anne Nichols.

In Santa Paula, he built stages across from a resort called Sulphur Mountain Springs, where the troupe rented rooms.

In November 1911, Gaston met with Vitagraph Studios in New York and sold fifty percent of his company, including his brother's negatives and distribution rights.

[6] On July 24, 1912, Gaston, his wife and a crew of 14 left for a Pacific and Asian voyage to make movies in exotic locales.

It was believed that bad blood developed between the Méliès brothers, but recent research indicates that despite losses in the American branch, Georges received all payments he was due.