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Harry E. Aitken

Died 1 August 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Harry E. Aitken was a partner in the Western Film Exchange of New York. Aitken created a number of film production and distribution companies during the 1910s: the Film Supply Company of America, the Majestic Motion Picture Company, Mutual Film Corporation, Reliance Motion Picture Corporation, and the Triangle Film Corporation. The Epoch Producing Corporation was created in early 1915 with director D.W. Griffith to produce and market The Birth of a Nation (1915). In 1923, Aitken continued efforts in film distribution with Tri-Stone Pictures, Incorporated.

References: Slide-FineArts p. 1.