Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
- ISBN-10
- 0813542936
- ISBN-13
- 9780813542935
- Category
- Motion picture industry
- Pages
- 577
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Richard Koszarski
Description
A nostalgic, visual study reveals that many writers, producers, and directors continued to work in New York during the 1920s and 1930s even as film industry executives had centralized the mass production of feature pictures in film factories across Southern California.
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