Thanhouser photographer and
cameraman Lawrence Williams with his equipment (Courtesy of the American Museum of the
Moving Image/Lawrence Williams Collection)
Thanhouser
Company Film Preservation, Inc., is a non- profit 501(c)(3) organization
involved in the research, acquisition, preservation and publication of educational
materials related to the early silent motion picture era, with a specific focus on the
Thanhouser film enterprise. From its founding in 1909 through 1917, Thanhouser Company,
and its successor company, Mutual's Thanhouser Film Corporation, produced and released
over 1,000 silent films to worldwide distribution.