Today is the birthday of Earle W. (E.W.) Hammons (1882-1962). A Mississippi native, Hammons established Educational Pictures (a.k.a Educational Films Corporation) in 1915 to produce educational films to be released to schools and churches, and for its first several years, the studio managed to do that exclusively. To bolster the company’s bottom line, starting round […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:27AM on December 2, 2014