Name: The First Hollywood. Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking
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Author: Shawn C. Bean
ISBN: 9780813081045

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The First Hollywood. Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Author

Shawn C. Bean

Year

2025

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9780813081045

The First Hollywood. Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking

Shawn C. Bean (Author) · University Press of Florida · Paperback

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Synopsis "The First Hollywood. Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking"

Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida NonfictionInside the filmmaking industry in Jacksonville before the rise of HollywoodJacksonville, 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 York-based Kalem Studios sent its first crew to Jacksonville. By 1914, fifteen major companies—including Fox and Metro Pictures—had set up shop there. Oliver Hardy, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and the Barrymores all made movies in the Florida sunshine. In total, nearly 300 films, including the first Technicolor picture ever made, were completed in Jacksonville by 1928. But the city couldn't escape its past. Even as upstart Hollywood boosters sought to discredit Jacksonville, the city's influence diminished from a combination of political upheaval, simmering racial tensions, disease, and World War I. Shawn Bean uses first-person accounts, filmmaker biographies, newspaper reports, and city and museum archives to bring to light a little-known aspect of film history. Filled with intrigue, backroom shenanigans, and missed opportunities, The First Hollywood is just the kind of drama we've come to expect from the big screen.