Starring New Jersey : how to make your town film friendly / Elizabeth Parchment.

Abstract: Before Hollywood there was Fort Lee, New Jersey - the film capital of the world. Thomas Edison and William K.L. Dickson invented the world's first motion picture camera, the kinetograph, on the grounds of Edison's West Orange laboratory in 1888. Shortly thereafter, the Edison Company bilt the world's first movie studio. A one-room shack covered in dark tar paper, it was dubbed the "Black Maria." Inside that small, wood-frame structure, some of the very first films in history were produced.