Silent Studio Directory - 73 - Cranfield and Clarke - US - 1924- 1927 - distribution company; expanded to production in 1925. Creation Films, Inc. - US - 1921 - production company located at 220 S. State St. Chicago, Illinois (formerly the Kalem Studio) with B. Herbert Milligan as president and treasurer and K. Hoddy Milligan as V. P. Crescent Film Manufacturing Co. - US - 1913 - distribution company. Crescent Film Co. - US - 1908 - production company founded by Fred Balshofer and Charles O. Baumann but closed by Edison attorneys by the end of the year; merged with Empire Film Exchange, owned by Baumann and Adam Kessel, to form New York Motion Picture Co. Crest Picture Co. - US - 1917- 1920 - production company formed by C. F. Rickey and B. W. Davies with Lyman Henry as president and William V. Mong as director general; formed to distribute by states rights; production at Monrovia, California; closed in 1920. Crest Pictures - US - 1917- distribution company located in the Times Building in New York. Creston Feature Pictures - US - 1922 - distribution company. Cricks and Martin - UK - 1908- 1914 - production company formed by George Cricks and John Martin to produce comedy shorts; in 1910, expanded studio at Waddon New Road in Croydon and released under trade name of Crick's Lions Head Films; in 1913, Martin left to set up