Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904-2004)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. |
Contents
Introduction City of Intrigue and Mystery by Paul Spehr
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Legend and Reality
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Into the Woods
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Biograph
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58 |
The Curtain Pole
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71 |
Champion
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77 |
Edgewater Cliffside Grantwood Ridgefield
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Éclair
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Fox
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BrenonIdeal
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Paragon
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The Film Town
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Universal
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Goldwyn
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286 |
Selznick
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Fort Lee Talks
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