Jules Brulatour
Actor, Organization founder
1870 – 1946
Who was Jules Brulatour?
Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour was a pioneering executive figure in American silent cinema. Beginning as American distribution representative for Lumiere Brothers raw film stock in 1907, he joined producer Carl Laemmle in forming the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company in 1909, effectively weakening the stronghold of the Motion Picture Patents Company, headed by Thomas Edison, a large trust company that was then monopolizing the American film industry through contracts with hand-picked, established studios. By 1911 Brulatour was president of the Sales Company.
Through the Sales Company, the growing number of independent filmmakers were able to obtain raw stock from Lumiere, for which Jules Brulatour remained sole US distributor, thereby cutting into profits for Kodak mogul George Eastman, whose film supply was exclusive to the Patents Company. Eastman soon realized he was on the losing side and approached Brulatour with a contract to sell his stock to the independents through the Sales Company. Brulatour accepted and his long association as head of distribution for Eastman Kodak began.
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- Born
- Apr 7, 1870
United States of America - Also known as
- Jules E. Brulatour
- Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour
- Spouses
- Dorothy Gibson
(1917/07/06 - 1923) - Hope Hampton
(1923 - 1946/10/26)
- Dorothy Gibson
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Died
- Oct 26, 1946
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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