Bergen County
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New Jersey, United States.
Toponymy
Grantwood Heights Land Company was incorporated on February 16, 1900 by Frank Knox. He bought land in the area, including what would later become Palisades Amusement Park. Grantwood was so dubbed in the beginning of the 20th century and takes its name from its location on the Hudson Palisades across the Hudson River from
Grant's Tomb
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''Grantwood'' was an artist's colony established in 1913 by Man Ray and Samuel Halpert and became the artistic center for a collective known as the "Others" group of artists. The colony consisted of a number of clapboard shacks on a bluff. Some names of the streets in this part of Ridgefield Heights — Sketch Place, Studio Road and Art Lane — pay homage to Grantwood's history. The first issue of The Glebe, a literary magazine, was published at the colony in 1913. In 1915, Alfred Kreymborg launched '' Others: A Magazine of the New Verse'' with Skipwith Cannell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Along with works of the founders it published work of
Maxwell Bodenheim
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Ezra Pound
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Walter Conrad Arensberg
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was influential in supporting the colony.
Motion picture industry
The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the
East Coast
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where, at one time, Fort Lee, just north of Grantwood, was the
motion picture
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capital of America.
The E.K.Lincoln Studio was built in 1915 in Grantwood on Bergen Boulevard and was owned and operated by
E.K. Lincoln
Edward Kline Lincoln (August 8, 1884 - January 9, 1958) was an American silent film actor and director. Lincoln appeared in over 65 silent films and was best known for movies like '' For the Freedom of the World'' (1917), '' The Light in the D ...
, who was both an actor and movie maker. Many in the early film world worked out of this studio and used various spots in the area for location work. The first production was '' The Fighting Chance'' in which Lincoln starred alongside Violet Horner (who also starred in ''The Girl from Alaska''). Between 1916 and 1917, the studio was rented by
Fox Film
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. In 1920 the United States Photoplay Corporation used it for the film ''Determination''. In 1923, Peter Jones produced the film ''How High Is Up?''.'' Moving Picture World '', June 19, 1915, p. 1922. According to
Film Daily
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(June 1926), the first episode of '' The Leather Pushers'' (1922) with Reginald Denny was filmed there. After World War I, many movie makers, including Lincoln, headed out to Hollywood where the climate enable them to film outdoors all year round. After talkies came into being in 1927, the studio continued to be used to make Italian and Polish language films. By the end of the Depression, the studio was no longer for film production. The building burnt down the 1960s.
See also
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Morsemere, New Jersey
Morsemere is a neighborhood in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, largely in the northern part of Ridgefield and straddling the border of Palisades Park south of start of U.S. Route 46.
History
Morsemere is named for Samuel Morse, who ...
Mount Moriah Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey)
Mount Moriah Cemetery is a burial ground in Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States, located on the western slopes of the Hudson Palisades, nearby the Fairview Cemetery.
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