Talk:Independent Moving Pictures

source : The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle By John Drinkwater (Reprint of the 1931 ed) [ Chapter IX page 124] IMP (page 61, 95, 111,  Chapter IX IMP page 124) and  Postcard images on line preview at ( up to page 269) http://books.google.com/books?id=V3PIYd9j7DAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=life+and+times+of+Carl+laemmle&psp=1#PPA269,M1

source : Los Angles photo collection labels :Universal City - Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills - Nestor Studios Company Photographs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Studios - The Nestor Motion Picture Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, owned by David Horsley and his brother William, opened the first motion picture studio in Hollywood in the Blondeau Tavern building at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in the fall of 1911. --- Discuss: "In 1910 IMP began production in Los Angeles, and had a studio at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street" suggest " IMP Independent Moving Pictures ( yankee film faclities - studio not located in hollywood "               Its was the Nestor Studio in the fall of 1911               that opened in hollywood.               source : The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle By John Drinkwater (Reprint of the 1931 ed)  [ Chapter IX page 124]                IMP  (page 61, 95, 111,  Chapter IX IMP page 124) and  Postcard images

Discuss " In 1909" By 1909, Lammle Film (Service Distribution) Laemmle entered into film production as the Yankee Film Company, soon renamed the Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) Company in New York. IMP's first film was Hiawatha (1909). source: www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro2.html

Discuss: " 1912 Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company - Merger -

The Nestor Motion Picture Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, owned by David Horsley and his brother William, opened the first motion picture studio in Hollywood in the Blondeau Tavern building at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in the fall of 1911. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Laemmle

On June 8, 1912 in New York, Carl Laemmle of the Independent Motion Picture Company, Pat Powers of Powers Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Films, and Bill Swanson of American Eclair, all signed a contract to merge their studios.

- In 1912 Nestor Studio ( Faclities in Holywood)  studios and ranch (leased San fernando valley ) became the pacific coast operations of  Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Studios

The leased nestor ranch was named "Universal City" [sources image on file Los Angles library] see chapter XI Universal City page 145 "The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle By John Drinkwater" see acticle