Located between the film industry’s West Coast center in Hollywood and its East Coast seat in New York, Dallas has emerged as a center for commercial production in Texas and one of the major production hubs in the nation. One of the crucial players in that development was the Jamieson Film Company. Started by Hugh Jamieson in 1916, the Jamieson Film Company is perhaps most widely remembered for producing the first copies of the famed Abraham Zapruder film that captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, the Company’s involvement with the Zapruder film represents just a single episode in over a half-century in the film processing and production business. During its lifespan, the Jamieson Film Company produced industrial films, television programs, and advertisements for clients across Texas and the United States, patented and perfected film processing equipment, and became a training ground for many prominent individuals in the Texas film industry.