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The American Film Manufacturing Company, also known as Flying "A" Studios, was an American motion picture production company. In 1915, the formal name was changed to the American Film Company.
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Filmography of American Film Manufacturing Company (83 films)

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Production

Lord Loveland Discovers America
Lord Loveland Discovers America (1916)
, 35minutes
Directed by Arthur Maude
Origin USA
Actors Arthur Maude, Constance Crawley, William A. Carroll, George Clancey, Nell Franzen, William Frawley

Plagued by creditors, but with no money to pay his debts, Lord Loveland (Arthur Maude) leaves England and sails to the United States hoping to find a wealthy heiress to marry. During the voyage, he makes friends with a lady playwright named Leslie Dearmer (Constance Crawley), whom he likes, but believing her not to be the wealthy heiress he seeks, he is reluctant to develop their friendship further. Leslie likes Loveland also and tries to help him after the ship arrives in port.
The Man Who Would Not Die
The Man Who Would Not Die (1916)
, 50minutes
Directed by William Russell, Nate Watt
Origin USA
Actors Charlotte Burton, Harry Keenan, William Russell, Leona Hutton

A wealthy young woman, Agnes (played by Burton), is loved by the identical twin brothers Clyde and Ward Kingsley (dual role played by Russell). She marries Clyde and he immediately begins squandering her fortune. When the money is almost gone, Clyde comes up with a plan to collect on his life insurance policy. As his brother, Ward, who still loves Agnes, is terminally ill, he persuades him to take his place so the insurance company will believe that Clyde has died instead of Ward.
Purity
Purity (1916)
, 1h10
Directed by Rae Berger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran, Nigel De Brulier, William A. Carroll, Alfred Hollingsworth, Eugenie Forde

Purity (Munson), a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modeling to publish his poetry.
The Wraith of Haddon Towers
The Wraith of Haddon Towers (1916)
, 35minutes
Directed by Arthur Maude
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Arthur Maude, Constance Crawley, Beatrice Van

Phillip Drummond (Arthur Maude) is summoned from America to England to attend the bedside of his dying uncle, the Baron Drummond. Upon arriving at the castle where the baron lives, Phillip learns that he has a long-dead ancestor, also named Phillip Drummond, whose murder a century earlier is still a mystery. In a room of the castle that is always kept locked, he encounters the female spirit (Constance Crawley) of his dead ancestor's past lover. Phillip's interest in the paranormal leads him to seek out the haunts of this ghost, during which he finds out that he himself is actually the reincarnation of the former Phillip Drummond. His
Embers
Embers (1916)

Directed by Arthur Maude
Origin USA
Actors Arthur Maude, Constance Crawley, Nell Franzen, William A. Carroll

Rhea Woodley (Constance Crawley) and her husband Martin (Arthur Maude) have a baby, but the child dies soon after birth, and Rhea's doctor tells her that she cannot risk another pregnancy. Devastated, Rhea becomes withdrawn, and Martin, who is continuing to live an active life, begins to show interest in Rhea's lively cousin Maysie Stafford (Nell Franzen). Wesley Strange (William Carroll), a former suitor of Rhea's, shows up unexpectedly, and when he observes Martin and Maysie flirting, he tells Rhea about it, hoping to drive the Woodleys apart. Rhea still loves Martin, but she fears that she can now no longer meet his needs, so she offers him a divorce, hoping that he can find happiness with her cousin. However, Martin still loves Rhea and declines her offer. Desperate to make Martin happy, Rhea next arranges for him to catch her faking a fondness for Wesley. Taken in by the ruse, Martin finally agrees to a divorce. Maysie then moves in to take over Martin's household, and Rhea, instead of taking up with Wesley, moves to a sanitarium, where she falls deeper and deeper into depression. Realizing that Rhea is fast losing the will to live, her doctor finds her an orphaned infant to care for, and the baby gives Rhea new meaning to her life. Martin meanwhile stumbles across Rhea's diary at his house and learns from it that she never really cared for Wesley Strange and that when he saw them together it was all a ruse to get him to agree to a divorce. He rushes to the sanitarium to be by Rhea's side, and when he finds her with the baby, the couple reconcile when they realize that they still love each other.
The Diamond from the Sky
The Diamond from the Sky (1915)

Directed by William Desmond Taylor, Jacques Jaccard
Genres Adventure
Actors Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, Charlotte Burton, William Russell, George Periolat, William Russell

The prologue, in the serial's first episode, "A Heritage of Hate", depicts the finding of “The Diamond From the Sky” which later becomes the heirloom of the Stanley family, while the two reels of the first chapter show the intense rivalry between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, Virginia aristocrats and descendants of Lord Arthur Stanley, two hundred years later.