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This year film enthusiasts celebrated the first National Silent Film Day. It took place on September 29, and I am betting that most folks did not participate in the appreciation of this almost completely lost artform. So, in anticipation of next year’s holiday, or simply to offer some of the greatest cinematic fare ever created, here are several of the most significant and utterly beautiful silent films. ....
Filmed in Jersey Before Hollywood, New Jersey film studios and back lots reeled out silent pictures. Mary Pickford starred in The New York Hat, filmed on location in 1912 in Fort Lee, NJ. Photo courtesy of Barrymore Film Center by Vince Farinaccio World Film Producing Studios in Fort Lee, NJ, with Director T. Hayes Hunter on the back lot. Photos courtesy of Barrymore Film Center This year’s Oscar contender Trial of the Chicago 7 may have been shut out of any Academy Awards last month, but its cinematic sleight-of-hand is probably not lost on North Jerseyans. That portion of the Garden State substituted for the movie’s Illinois setting, with scenes shot in Paterson, Newark, Clifton, Hoboken, Montclair and Madison. Like other motion pictures recently filmed in New Jersey, it can be viewed as a sort of homecoming to the region once recognized as America’s movie industry capital. ....