Title Hollywood on the Hudson : film and television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff / Richard Koszarski.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (x, 577 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-553) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction -- New York pioneer -- Paramount on Long Island -- Freelance filmmaking -- Studio city -- Edison's dream -- Paramount speaks -- Talkies for everyone -- Independent alternatives -- Cartoons in the city -- Film and reality -- Multicultural revival -- A miniature Hollywood -- Radio visions -- Live from New York -- "We have a city here."
Summary	Thomas Edison invented his motion picture system in New Jersey in the 1890s, and within a few years most American filmmakers could be found within a mile or two of the Hudson River. They planted themselves here because they needed the artistic and entrepreneurial energy that D.W. Griffith realized New York had in abundance. But as the going rate for land and labor skyrocketed and their business grew more industrialized, most of them moved out. The way most historians explain it, the role of New York in the development of American film ends here. In Hollywood on the Hudson, Richard Koszarski r.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Motion picture industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Television broadcasting -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Motion picture industry.
	Television broadcasting.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
	Motion picture industry. (OCoLC)fst01027150
	Television broadcasting. (OCoLC)fst01146714
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood on the Hudson. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813542935 0813542936 (DLC) 2007029664 (OCoLC)156892017
ISBN	9780813545523 (electronic bk.)
	0813545528 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	9786611801656

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