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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KingofThings, post: 105233, member: 468&quot;]I just watched 4 DVDs full of Edison movies and thought this may be one of his in conjunction with Pathe&#039; but don&#039;t believe so now. </p><p>~</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey#History" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey#History" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt;&gt; America&#039;s first motion picture industry</a> can trace its roots to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River" rel="nofollow">Hudson River</a> towns of New Jersey, especially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey" rel="nofollow">Fort Lee</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Studios" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Studios" rel="nofollow">Nestor Studios</a> (which merged into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Studios" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Studios" rel="nofollow">Universal Studios</a>) began in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey" rel="nofollow">Bayonne</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%C3%A9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%C3%A9" rel="nofollow">Pathé</a>, the France-based company that during the first part of the 20th century was the largest film equipment and production company in the world and established an American factory and studio facility in The Heights in 1910, the building of which still stands overlooking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson_Plank_Road" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson_Plank_Road" rel="nofollow">Paterson Plank Road</a>. It also established the Eclectic Film Company as a subsidiary distribution company for both its American and European product. Although the Jersey City plant produced moderately popular comedies, dramas, and newsreels largely directed at the US market, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perils_of_Pauline_%281914_serial%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perils_of_Pauline_%281914_serial%29" rel="nofollow">Perils of Pauline</a> was the first American-made Pathé effort to achieve worldwide success under the Eclectic banner. &lt;&lt;&lt; Me&gt; The tracks used for the PoP are no longer there in the huge vacant area under the beginning of the Hudson Palisades and below Christ Hospital which stands on them high above. This was a huge freight yard at one time as literally most of what was sent across the continent went through Jersey City first.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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