Francis W. Boggs (1870 - October 27, 1911) was a stage actor and important pioneer silent film director and one of the first to work in Hollywood. 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to...

Francis Boggs

Born in Santa Rosa, California, while in his teens he began acting with the Alcazar stock company in San Francisco and toured the American southwest. In 1900, he moved to Los Angeles but in 1903 went to Chicago where he continued to work in theatre. There, he met William N. Selig and in 1907 Boggs became involved with the making of motion pictures at Selig's Polyscope studios in Chicago. With camerman and jack of all trades, Thomas Persons, Boggs began making his first film, The Count of Monte Cristo. He completed the interior shots at the Chicago studio but wanting authenticity he filmed the remainder at locations in Colorado and Los Angeles. Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California. ... This article is about the city in California. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... There are also three Colorado Rivers: two in the United States and one in Argentina. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ...

In 1908, he returned to the West coast where he filmed In the Sultan’s Power. It would be the first motion picture completely made in Los Angeles. That same year, in Chicago he made The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays which had its writer, L. Frank Baum present a slide show and films as a live travelogue presentation of his OZ story plus he hired Fatty Arbuckle and did three short films with him. That same year, Boggs returned to Los Angeles and rented a small bungalow as a permanent base from which he operated a quasi satellite studio for Selig. Other East coast studios soon began filming on the west coast to take advantage of its moderate climate. See: West Coast of the United States West Coast, New Zealand West Coast, Tasmania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author and the creator of one of the most beloved classics of childrens literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887–June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian who gained the nickname Fatty (a name that he hated, and only used professionally) from his portly frame and who is best known for his involvement in the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. He began his career... A short film (also short or short subject) is a motion picture that is shorter than the average feature film. ... The East Coast (also known as the Eastern Seaboard) is a term referencing the easternmost coastal states in the United States of America. ...

Working out of his Los Angeles location, Francis Boggs took his small crew to a ranch in Oklahoma where he filmed Ranch Life in the Great South West. The film included future superstar cawboy Tom Mix in a bit part and consumer interest in frontier type films led to the creation of the highly successful Western film genre. In 1910, Boggs directed Pride of the Range, a film that included Tom Mix but also marked the first screen performance for another future cowboy star, Hoot Gibson. State nickname: Sooner State Other U.S. States Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Official languages None Area 181,196 km² (20th)  - Land 178,023 km²  - Water 3,173 km² (1. ... There was also a fictional cowboy called Tom Mix in an early Western fiction scenario. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... Hoot Gibson ( August 6, 1892 - August 23, 1962) was a rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director, and producer. ...

By 1911, David Horsley had set up his Nestor Studios in Hollywood and within two years more than a dozen film companys would follow Boggs' example and establish facilities in and around Los Angeles. David Horsley (March 11, 1873 – February 23, 1933) was English born pioneer of the movie industry who built the first movie studio in Hollywood. ... Christie-Nestor Studios, circa 1913 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 on October 27, 1911. ...

Uunforunately for the pioneering Francis Boggs, who had made upwards of one hundred films by the fall of 1911, his career and life ended when he was shot and killed by an apparently deranged employee.

Many of his first films starred Hobart Bosworth who would go on to take his place as a Selig director. As Hollywood and the film industry underwent an explosive period of growth, over the years Frank Boggs significant contribution to the establishing of what would become the Hollywood film industry was all but forgotten.