Kay-Bee Pictures Explained

Kay-Bee Pictures, or Kessel and Baumann, was an American silent film studio, and part of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company's mottos included, "every picture a headliner" and "Kay-Bee stands for Kessel and Baumann and Kessel and Baumann stands for quality", referring to Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann.^[1] It was party of the New York Motion Picture Company and was used after a settlement with rival Universal Pictures to end the film division named 101 Bison.^[2] Anna Little was one of its stars.^[3] Its executives included Thomas Ince.

Filmography

• The Paymaster's Son (1913)
• The Sergeant's Secret (1913)
• Banzai (1913)^[4]
• Love's Sacrifice (1914)
• Mother of the Shadows (1914)
• The Death Mask (1914)
• The Geisha (1914)
• The Gangster and the Girl (1914)
• The Golden Claw (1915)
• The Winged Idol (1915)
• The Coward (1915)
• The Famine (1915)
• The Beckoning Flame (1915)
• The Beggar of Cawpur (1916)^[5]
• Shell 43 (1916)^[6]
• Civilization's Child (1916)
• Somewhere in France (1916)
• The Raiders (1916)
• Hell's Hinges (1916)
• The Return of Draw Egan (1916)
• The Three Musketeers (1916)
• The Stepping Stone (1916)
• The Wolf Woman (1916)
• The Corner (1916)
• The Apostle of Vengeance (1916)
• The Pitch Hitter (1917)^[7]
• The Weaker Sex (1917)
• The Clodhopper (1917)
• The Hater of Men (1917)
• The Bride of Hate (1917)
• The Millionaire Vagrant (1917)
• The Gunfighter (1917)
• Happiness (1917)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Motion Picture News. December 21, 1912. Motion Picture News Incorporated. Google Books.
2. Book: Tasker, Yvonne. The Action and Adventure Cinema. August 19, 2004. Routledge. 9781134564941. Google Books.
3. Web site: To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette. December 21, 1913. Amer. Company, Limited. Google Books.
4. Book: Rubens, Alma . Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird: Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography . 2015-03-21 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-1667-4 . Rhodes . Gary D. . 199 . en . Webb . Alexander.
5. Book: Woods, Jeannine . Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962 . 2011 . Peter Lang . 978-3-03911-974-5 . 211 . en.
6. Book: Golden, Eve . John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars . 2013-04-12 . University Press of Kentucky . 978-0-8131-4163-3 . 274 . en.
7. Book: Gronmaier, Danny . The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time . 2022-12-05 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . 978-3-11-076039-2 . 250 . en.