{{Short description|Film producer}} thumb| '''Ludwig G. B. Erb''' (November 3, 1875 – July 31, 1958)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5isYAAAAIAAJ&q=Ludwig+G.+B.+Erb|title=U.S. Tax Cases|first=Commerce Clearing|last=House|date=October 12, 1966|publisher=Commerce Clearing House|via=Google Books}}</ref> was a film producer in the United States during the silent film era.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qEbAQAAMAAJ&q=Ludwig+G.+B.+Erb&pg=PA1712|title=The Moving Picture World|date=October 12, 1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> He established Erbograph Productions.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnzsAgAAQBAJ&q=erbograph+productions&pg=PA67|title = The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry|isbn = 9781135925543|last1 = Slide|first1 = Anthony|date = 25 February 2014| publisher=Routledge }}</ref>

== Career == Erb was involved in a series of film businesses. He worked with Pat Powers and Joseph A. Golden at one studio.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvEmDwAAQBAJ&q=Ludwig+G.+B.+Erb&pg=PA42|title=Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904-2004)|first=Richard|last=Koszarski|date=March 2, 2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780861969425|via=Google Books}}</ref> He established Crystal Film Company<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTYOAAAAIAAJ&q=Ludwig+G.+B.+Erb&pg=PA38|title=The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry|first=Robert|last=Grau|date=October 12, 1914|publisher=Broadway publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref>/ Crystal Productions, a split-reel comedy film producer that supplied Universal and then United Film Service. It partnered with other producers after United folded.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C37sAgAAQBAJ&q=Crystal+Productions+erb&pg=PT107|title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry|first=Anthony|last=Slide|date=February 25, 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135925611|via=Google Books}}</ref> Golden partnered with Erb at Crystal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yNJAQAAMAAJ&q=Crystal+Productions+erb&pg=RA14-PA26|title=Motion Picture News|date=September 19, 1912|publisher=Motion Picture News Incorporated|via=Google Books}}</ref>

According to IMDb, O. E. Goebel served as president of Erbograph Productions. He went on to write and direct films.

In the early 20th century, Erb registered names for various health products with the U.S. Patent Office.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fC-lXyZabmwC&q=Ludwig+G.+B.+Erb&pg=PA509|title=Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...|first=United States Patent|last=Office|date=October 12, 1901|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref> Erb also invested in residential property development in Beverly Hills in the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cite.case.law/set-cookie/?next=%2Fcal-app%2F125%2F641%2F|access-date=2021-11-30|website=cite.case.law}}</ref>/

==Filmography== *''The Crimson Stain Mystery'' (1916), producer *''Infidelity (1917 film)'', produced by Ludwig G. B. Erb's Erbograph Company *''The Little Samaritan'' (1917), produced by Ludwig G.B. Erb *''Little Miss Fortune'' (1917), producer *''The Road Between'' (1917), producer *''Drusilla with a Million'' (1925), supervisor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C102297/Ludwig-G.-B.-Erb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024030525/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%257C102297/Ludwig-G.-B.-Erb|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 24, 2021|title=Ludwig G. B. Erb|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>

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