New PDF release: Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry (Images

By Fort Lee Film Commission

ISBN-10: 0738545015

ISBN-13: 9780738545011

ISBN-10: 153162751X

ISBN-13: 9781531627515

a favourite locale of such movie pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford, the historical borough of fortress Lee used to be the 1st heart of the yank movie undefined. Studios covered either side of major road, and massive movie laboratories fed the nickelodeon marketplace with millions of reels of comedies and cliffhangers. Broadway stars and manufacturers got here the following to make lots of their first feature-length motion pictures; yet through the Nineteen Twenties, Theda Bara, Fatty Arbuckle, and Douglas Fairbanks have been long past. but even after the studios closed down, the movie used to be nonetheless the spine of the neighborhood economic climate, with 1000s operating backstage within the printing, garage, and distribution of flicks being made in Hollywood.

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