Our Movie Houses: A History of Film & Cinematic Innovation in Central New York

by Norman O. Keim and David Marc

Book Overview

Conventional screen histories tend to concentrate on New York City and Hollywood in chronicling the evolution of American cinema. Notwithstanding both cities' tremendous contribution, Syracuse and Central New York also played a strategic--yet little-known--role in early screen history.
In 1889 in Rochester, New York, George Eastman registered a patent for perforated celluloid film, a development that would telescope the international race to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815608969
• ISBN13: 9780815608967
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.2"