Our movie houses : a history of film & cinematic innovation in Central New York
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Our movie houses : a history of film & cinematic innovation in Central New York
（Television and popular culture）
Syracuse University Press, 2008
1st ed
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
Contents of Works
- Origins of American film in Central New York State
- The Nickelodeon era, 1909-1919
- The roaring twenties : movie palaces and theater organs
- The Great Depression and the War : talkies, double features, and dish night
- End of the studio era : TV, widescreen projection, and drive-ins
- The Schine and Kallet circuits : exhibition in Central New York
- Neighborhood theaters in the city of Syracuse
- Cinema figures with links to central and upstate New York : a biographical dictionary
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Description
Conventional screen histories tend to concentrate on New York City and Hollywood in chronicling the evolution of American cinema. Notwithstanding the tremendous contribution of both cities, Syracuse and Central New York also played a strategic - yet little-known - role in early screen history.In 1889 in Rochester, New York, George Eastman registered a patent for perforated celluloid film, a development that would telescope the international race to record motion by means of photography to the immediate future. In addition, the first public film projection occurred in Syracuse, New York, in 1896. Norman O. Keim and David Marc provide a highly readable and richly detailed account of the origins of American film in Central New York, the colorful history of neighborhood theaters in Syracuse, and the famous film personalities who got their start in the unlikely snow belt of New York State. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be treasured by both film buffs and Central New Yorkers.
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