Thanhouser photographer and cameraman Lawrence Williams with his equipment (Courtesy of the American Museum of the Moving Image/Lawrence Williams Collection)

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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.

Want to learn more about silent films and  preservation?

• American Film Institute

• Association of Moving Image Archivists

• The Bioscope

• British Film Institute

• EYE Film Institute Netherlands

• George Eastman House

• Library of Congress

• National Film Preservation Foundation

• The Silent Era Website

• The Silent Film Still Archive

• Silent Hall of Fame

• The Silent Treatment

• UCLA Film & Television Archive

Watch video tours of film archives around the world.

Do you have film or digital media that needs transfer to DVD? Visit www.filmmaintenance.com to get this done!

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation is a co-founder and proud sponsor of the International Youth Silent Film Festival.