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Fort Lee : the film town / Richard Koszarski.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U759 K67 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koszarski, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--New Jersey--Fort Lee--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- New Jersey--Fort Lee.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 377 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rome : John Libbey ; Bloomington : Orders (US) : Indiana University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- "Richard Koszarski recreates 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and fall of Fort Lee filmmaking in a remarkable collage of period news accounts, memoirs, municipal records, previously unpublished memos and correspondence, and dozens of rare posters and photographs - not just film history, but a unique account of what happened to one New Jersey town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."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- City of intrigue and mystery / by Paul Spehr
- Fort Lee : legend and reality
- Into the woods
- Biograph
- "The curtain pole"
- Champion
- Edgewater, Cliffside, Grantwood, Ridgefield
- Éclair
- Solax
- Pathé
- Willat-triangle
- Peerless-world
- Cartoon department
- Fox
- Brenon-ideal
- Paragon
- The film town
- Universal
- Goldwyn
- Selznick
- Fort Lee talks
- Why did the studios leave Fort Lee?
- Fort Lee and its films : color portfolio.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes index (p. 357-377).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Koszarski, Richard. Fort Lee.
- ISBN:
- 0861966538
- 9780861966530
- 086196652X
- 9780861966523
- OCLC:
- 57533946
- Publisher Number:
- 99994154528
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