This famous shack was the first movie studio ever — and, after refurb, you can visit it
Just over 130 years ago, an odd, 49-by-18 foot tar-paper shack appeared in West Orange, Essex County. It was the start of the movie business. Then, 70 years ago, that tar-paper shack made a surprise re-appearance. It was the start of a new business. The business of mythologizing the movie… read full story
“It was almost 50 years ago that I stood in the original ‘Black Maria’ — that first dream child of our greatest American inventive genius,“
