Fort Lee: The Film Town

preview-18
  • Fort Lee: The Film Town Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Koszarski
  • Release Date : 2005-03-02
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Genre : Performing Arts
  • Pages : 383
  • ISBN 13 : 0861969421
  • File Size : 55,55 MB

Fort Lee: The Film Town by Richard Koszarski PDF Summary

Book Description: During the 1910s, motion pictures came to dominate every aspect of life in the suburban New Jersey community of Fort Lee. During the nickelodeon era, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett would ferry entire acting companies across the Hudson to pose against the Palisades. Theda Bara, "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Douglas Fairbanks worked in the rows of great greenhouse studios that sprang up in Fort Lee and the neighboring communities. Tax revenues from studios and laboratories swelled municipal coffers. Then, suddenly, everything changed. Fort Lee, the film town once hailed as the birthplace of the American motion picture industry, was now the industry's official ghost town. Stages once filled to capacity by Paramount and Universal were leased by independent producers or used as paint shops by scenic artists from Broadway. Most of Fort Lee's film history eventually burned away, one studio at a time. Richard Koszarski re-creates the rise and fall of Fort Lee filmmaking in a remarkable collage of period news accounts, memoirs, municipal records, previously unpublished memos and correspondence, and dozens of rare posters and photographs—not just film history, but a unique account of what happened to one New Jersey town hopelessly enthralled by the movies. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Fort Lee: The Film Town books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Fort Lee: The Film Town

Fort Lee: The Film Town

File Size : 97,97 MB
Total View : 9520 Views
DOWNLOAD

During the 1910s, motion pictures came to dominate every aspect of life in the suburban New Jersey community of Fort Lee. During the nickelodeon era, D.W. Griff

Fort Lee

Fort Lee

File Size : 38,38 MB
Total View : 7777 Views
DOWNLOAD

A favorite locale of such film pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford, the historic borough of Fort Lee was the first center of the American motion pictur

Spectacle of Property

Spectacle of Property

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 753 Views
DOWNLOAD

Much of our time at the movies is spent in other people’s homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first book to a

The Griffith Project, Volume 12

The Griffith Project, Volume 12

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 6663 Views
DOWNLOAD

THE GRIFFITH PROJECT Paolo Cherchi Usai, General Editor Volume 12: Essays on D.W. Griffith Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai and Cynthia Rowell With contributions by

History Walks in New Jersey

History Walks in New Jersey

File Size : 76,76 MB
Total View : 1648 Views
DOWNLOAD

New Jersey has a varied and fascinating history-from its earliest Native American settlements, through its central role in the Revolutionary War, to its strateg