Name/Title
Lights! Camera! Florida! : ninety years of moviemaking and television production in the Sunshine StateEntry/Object ID
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112 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 x 28 cm. Spiral bound.
Lights! Camera! Florida! : ninety years of moviemaking and television production in the Sunshine State by Richard Alan Nelson.
Jacksonville, Florida, was the king of the infant film industry. Devastated by fire in 1901, rebuilt in a wide variety of architectural styles, sharing the same geographic and meteorological DNA as southern California, the city was an ideal location for northern film production companies looking to relocate. In 1908, New York-based Kalem Studios sent its first crew to Jacksonville. By 1914, fifteen major companies--including Fox and Metro Pictures--had set up shop there. Oliver Hardy, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and the Barrymore's all made movies in the Florida sunshine. In total, nearly 300 films, including the first Technicolor picture ever made, were completed in Jacksonville by 1928.
Contents: Foreword by Samuel A. Gill -- Introduction: Filmmaking and the Florida Dream --Part I: Boom and Bust in the Florida Movie Industry -- Jax Rivals Hollywood -- Bubble Bursts -- Struggle to Recover / Part II: Florida Faces the Future -- New Film Economies Favor Florida -- Florida's Film Development Strategies / Bibliography -- Some Important Florida Archive Collections -- Chronology.
Names involved with the film industry in Jacksonville: Mayor Bowden -- George Kleine -- Samuel Long -- Frank Marion -- William Wright -- Gene Gauntier -- William Selig -- Kathlyn Williams -- Lubin Company -- Oliver Hardy -- Richard Norman -- Bill Pickett -- Lionel Barrymore -- Ethel Barrymore -- Victor Moore -- Edwin Thanhouser -- Vim Studios -- Bobby Burns -- Harry Meyers -- Rosemary Theby -- W. Eugene Moore -- Mark Dintenfass -- Richard Garrick -- Carlyle Blackwell -- John Martin -- Eagle Studio -- Encore Pictures Corporation -- Henry J. Klutho --Cuckoo Comedies -- Murray W. Garsson -- Fine Arts City.Collection
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Motion picture industry -- Florida -- History., Norman Studios., Motion picture industry -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century., Kalem Studios.Publication Details
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Nelson, Richard Alan, 1947-Publisher
Florida Endowment for the HumanitiesPlace Published
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Tampa, FLCall No.
PN1993.5.U73 N45 1987