Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission gratefully acknowledges the following distinguished historians and organizations for their assistance. All of the movie images and historic artifacts in the exhibit were made available through their generosity. We encourage you to learn more by reaching out to Tom Meyers and the Fort Lee Film Commission, historian Richard Koszarski who is the foremost expert on the film industry in NJ; Hisani DuBose who is a filmmaker and educator, Dave Sica of the Antique Radio Club of NJ, the Thomas Edison National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) where Thomas Edison had his West Orange laboratory, movie executive Richard Wesley, the Early Television Museum in Ohio and Nelson Page. Thanks also to Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, InfoAge Science/History Learning Center, the Collection of Peter Graves, Paterson Museum and Ron Hutchinson, Bayonne Historical Society, Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum, Richard Allen Archives, Sayreville Historical Society, Q. David Bowers Collection/Northeast Historic Film group and of course to the Library of Congress, Washington DC. |
