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The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking
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Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Inside the filmmaking industry in Jacksonville before the rise of Hollywood
Jacksonville, Florida, was the center 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 Yorkbased Kalem Studios sent its first cr...