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 First location shoot in NYC The first movie footage ever shot on location in New York was filmed at 2 pm on May 11th, 1896 by William Heise, a cameraman with the Edison Company, showing 51 seconds of activity at the corner of Herald Square and 34th Street. |  |
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America's first movie studio The first movie studio in America, the Vitagraph Studio on East 14th Street in Brooklyn, was begun in 1903. Sold to Warners Bros, in the 1920s, then used by NBC Television in the 1950s, it was later the home of The Cosby Show and continues to serve as an active production center to this day. | |
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The "Big House" In 1920, Paramount Pictures opened its massive East Coast studio in Astoria, Queens. Known as the "big house," the 14-acre complex contained one of the largest stages ever built, a fifty seat screening room, and a publicity department equipped to handle 10,000 stills a day. Used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, it was refurbished in the 1970s and 80s, and is known today as Kaufman Astoria Studios. | |
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NYC's feature debut The first modern feature film to be produced as well as filmed in New York and its surroundings, On the Waterfront, stunned the Hollywood establishment when it won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 1954 Academy Awards. The following year, the second New York-produced feature, Marty, also won Best Picture and three other Oscars. | |
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Marilyn Monroe on 52nd Street On the night of Wednesday, September 15th, 1954, over 1500 onlookers gathered on the corner of 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue to watched Marilyn Monroe perform her legendary "skirt-blowing" scene for The Seven Year Itch. The director, Billy Wilder, required Monroe to repeat the sequence through fifteen takes before he was satisfied. | |
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Set decorations become 'real' In 1987, the tenement building set constructed on a Lower East Side street for the 1987 film *batteries not included looked so realistic that sanitation men removed prop garbage cans in front of the building and passers-by inquired about available apartments; the accuracy of the coffee shop set built on a Tribeca street corner for the 1994 film It Could Happen to You, meanwhile, encouraged several local residents to stop in and ask for a lunch menu.  Previous page | |
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