Selig Polyscope Company  

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The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois.

Partial filmography

• The Tramp and the Dog (1896)
• Soldiers at Play (1898)
• Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
• Chicago Police Parade (1901)
• Dewey Parade (1901)
• Gans-McGovern Fight (1901)
• Fun at the Glenwood Springs Pool (1902)
• A Hot Time on a Bathing Beach (1903)
• Business Rivalry (1903)
• Chicago Fire Run (1903)
• Chicago Firecats on Parade (1903)
• The Girl in Blue (1903)
• Trip Around The Union Loop (1903)
• View of State Street (1903)
• Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek (1904) (survives)
• Humpty Dumptry (1904)
• The Tramp Dog (1904)
• The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage (1904)
• The Grafter (1907)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1908)
• Damon and Pythias (1908)
• The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908)
• Briton and Boer (1909)
• Hunting Big Game in Africa (1909)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) (survives)
• The Sergeant (1910) (survives)
• The Way of the Eskimo (1911)
• Lost in the Arctic (1911)
• Life on the Border (1911) (partial section survives)
• The Coming of Columbus (1911)
• Brotherhood of Man (1912)
• Kings of the Forest (1912)
• War Time Romance (1912)
• The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913)
• Arabia, the Equine Detective (1913)
• The Devil and Tom Walker (1913)
• The Sheriff of Yavapai County (1913)
• Wamba A Child of the Jungle (1913)
• The Spoilers (1914) (survives)
• A Black Sheep (1915)
• House of a Thousand Candles (1915)
• The Man from Texas (1915)
• The Crisis (1916)
• The Garden of Allah (1916)
• The City of Purple Dreams (1918)
• Little Orphant Annie (1918)