In the beginning...there was Fort Lee, New Jersey. Situated on the top of the Palisades cliffs, it was a natural fortress during the Revolutionary War, and where, in the start of the 1900s, the early cinema revolution rooted and shot up in and all around the New York/New Jersey landscape. One of the first cinema pioneers and a studio executive was Mark Dintenfass who founded the Champion Film Company in 1910. The Champion studio was built in the...
Dorothy Gibson was a 22 year old silent film star, having found a place in a lifeboat dressed in a sweater and coat over an evening gown on the night of April 14, 1912, the night Titanic sank. Lifeboat 7 was launched at 12:45 a.m. and remained near the sinking ship so it could be used in a rescue operation. By 2 a.m. it was obvious the majority of people scrambling on the decks of the Titianic would not survive. As the ship went down, two hours...
A week since the announcement at the Reel Jersey Girls Symposium in Asbury Park, New Jersey, that Senate Majority Leader, Loretta Weinberg introduced to bills: SB1178 repeals Governor Christie's suspension of the New Jersey Film Tax Credit and SB1882 to reinstate the New Jersey Film Tax Credit. Since the October 2012 Press Conference held in Fort Lee, New Jersey birthplace of the motion picture industry, Senator Weinberg along with Senator Paul...