Silent Studio Directory - 15 - American Kineto Corp. - US - 1913- 1914 - distribution company located at 1018 Long Acre Bldg, Broadway at 42nd Street, New York; offices moved to the World's Tower Bldg, 110 West Fortieth Street, New York in 1914. American Kinograph Company - US - 1909-1910 - production and distribution company located at 124 E. 25th Street, New York. American Legion Film Service - US - 1926 - distribution company specializing in war films. American Lifeograph Co. - US - 1915- 1920 - production company located in Portland, Oregon and headed by Lewis H. Moomaw; specialized in westerns and distributed through states rights, i.e. Globe Feature Picture Booking Co. and United Booking Office Feature Co. American Movies, Inc. - US - 1922 - located at 238 E. 3rd St. New York. American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. - US - 1902-1909 - production company formed from the American Mutoscope Co.; moved in 1906 to offices and studio located at 11 East 14th Street in New York; opened a studio in Los Angeles at Pico and Georgia Sts; in1908, D. W. Griffith joined as writer and actor and became their lead director; company name changed again in May 1909 to the Biograph Company. American Mutoscope Co. - US - 1895- 1902 - production and distribution company formed by George Blanchard, Herman Kasler, J. J. Kennedy, Elias B. Koopman, and Henry N. Marvin to market the Mutoscope (a flip card machine created by Casler); William Dickson (inventor of the original Edison Kinetoscope camera) joined to help create a the Biograph project which would not infringe on Edison’s patent; production studio was created on the roof at 841 Broadway in Manhattan, then known as the Hackett Carhart Bldg.; name was changed to American Mutoscope & Biograph Company in 1902.