Sigmund Lubin

Six thoughts about Sigmund Lubin

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I could add by tell many stories which I collected circa 1970. -- One frequently used Lubin film site is on the National Register of Historic Places: The 1600's log cabin at north end Creek Road in Drexel Hill. It made a near creek splendid background. Not many flat yards from Darby Creek the cabin was used in Cowboy Westerns circa 1902 and in years after - while Lubin was in Delaware County. One scene cranked out near the cabin made use of a fight between gold panners. The two fell fighting into the creek. Apparently fight and slash fall scenes were frequently done. -- A locally famous stage coach was horse raced frequently down the straight stretch of road heading toward the cabin. The Schoemaker family of Landsowne had a big barn and the coach was stored therein.

” — Tom Roy Smith, January 28, 2014 at 12:21 a.m.

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The Ghost of William Penn: More Lore on Local Filmmaker Seigmund Lubin (1841-1923)

By Tom Roy Smith, aka., William Penn, Times Guest Columnist

Governor William Penn speaking…

“Welcome! Welcome!”

Today’s instruction touts silent filmmaker Seigmund Lubin.

A wee back Sig’ Lubin shared space in a lesson touting the personal memories of Minnie Chadwick. Precious ‘Minne.’

Today’s lesson on Lubin runs strictly him in overview. Seigmund Lubin was a self starter.

Pennsylvania has since founding been a great place for self starters.

Transplant Philadelphian, Seigmund Lubin started making silent shorts in 1897. Yes that early!

The native born Prussian loved Delco as a locale to make his earliest pre 1910 films. Later, it was with minded purposefulness that he picked a place to erect his studio, which resembled ground features he so loved in Delco.

Why did he move? He moved to a less confining locale. A locale that resembled the best that Delco had to offer.

Lubin had appreciated one Delco lay of ground feature: quarries. Lubin loved using stone walls as background. Quarries provided these. From cliff faces he would often drop a prop body, which action closed many a fight scene.

Good guy always won in outcome.

Oh! No one disputes the plausible claim that credits Lubin films for the tag: ‘cliff hanger.’

Hollywood, most of Hollywood, claim there were no films before Hollywood. However, years before California took primacy for filmmaking, sections of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York served first filmmakers.

Think inclusive with Sig’ Lubin... Delaware Co., PA.

The way Lubin started his career was prosaic.

His daughters he lovingly prodded into a bedroom pillow fight.

Daddy Lubin cranked the film camera handle and recorded the happy mayhem. Of tike weight, his daughters made bounces on a bed while pomading each other.

The film survives: You can ‘hear’ – hear the shrieks of glee laughter!

(Timeless, if the film was entered into a funny video contest it would win.)

End Part I of three Parts

” — Tom Roy Smith, January 28, 2014 at 12:49 a.m.

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Joseph Eckgardt kniwsmore Lubin facts than anyone. I met two persons wgo acted for Lubin fulm crew. Many more recall hus crew aling Darby Creek. My yoingest informant of tyke school afe. He told that he would play hookey from chiil to watch.He did the warching in Lansdowne, Pa. Perjaps he saw rge short bit done on the southeast corner of Balrimore Pike where Darby Creek intersects. A woman wgi resuded in one of stone row Mill houses thought she was most blessed. A Lubin crew wanted to dikm her residence as backdrop. Rgar with a request. The crew wanted to appear to paonting the house wuth whitewash.
Thet sis a large corner but a small part of the house; leaving most undone. That was fine because she woulf not touch it. She pointed to it with pride.
Lubin crew paid her $5,00

” — Tom Roy Smith, March 21, 2014 at 1:54 p.m.

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I write now and again with pleasure as I have many tidbit stories relating to Sig' "Pop" Lubin.
Today I was in recall of the bottom site stream and bridged highway spot, on ++Baltimore Pile, over Darby Creek. Whitewashed rows of connected mill worker housing stood four square direction from the bridge road.
Every row looked either exactly lookalike the near ones or very similar. To identify exact - locals gave colorful names to every row-string of mill houses. One on the north side of the Pike and hug tight to the bridge was Duck Row. Local person related it always had ducks waddling close and about.
Once, however, the ducks were gone!
In some gather way the ducks were rounded up and borrowed by a Lubin film crew for a film part.

Local persons spoke of items outside their homes - disappearing; err, found that they had been borrowed - unasked - by the same crew culprits.

One householder had a small running fence. He looked out one day and it was gone. His fence was gone! Lubin crew borrowed. The go-along and pick up of props was a challenging put-up-with...

” — Tom Roy Smith, February 14, 2015 at 11:39 a.m.

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