SIEGMUND LUBIN: The King of the Movies

In 1882, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant arrived in Philadelphia with a leather case full of eyeglasses which he peddled on the streets. Thirty-five years later, he was the head of America’s first film empire, producing movies that were distributed all over the world.

THE KING OF THE MOVIES presents Lubin’s story—the tale of a complex visionary and entrepreneur who commercialized the early movie industry and gave Sam Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille and the Warner Brothers their first big breaks. At the height of his career in 1914, he was America’s first movie mogul, living a lavish lifestyle. When he died nine years later, he was impoverished and forgotten.

Now, after thirty year of research, the development of a full-length feature documentary is underway.