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Passaic, NJ: Birthplace of Television

11/14/2012

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Du Mont is a pioneer in the television industry, with the first American TV sets on the market in 1938.  In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Du Mont was America’s fourth television network before Channel Five (Fox) proved that a fourth network was viable. Du Mont competed with CBS, NBC and ABC for a […]

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Reel Jersey Girl, Alice Guy Blache, Honored

07/03/2012

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    Alice Guy Blache, the first woman film director in cinema history, received honor on July 1, her birthday, as the Fort Lee Film Commission unveiled a new grave marker acknowledging her contributions in filmmaking in New Jersey, birthplace of the motion picture industry. A cinema pioneer, Madame Blache founded Solax Studio in Fort […]

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