books.google.com - Thomas Edison invented his motion picture system in New Jersey in the 1890s, and within a few years most American filmmakers could be found within a mile or two of the Hudson River. They planted themselves here because they needed the artistic and entrepreneurial energy that D. W. Griffith realized New...http://books.google.com/books/about/Hollywood_On_the_Hudson.html?id=1NzOhgPs80MC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHollywood On the Hudson
