New York Motion Picture Production

There Have Been many news articles with reference to the problem of motion picture production in the City of New York, and many of them, I fear, used the language of the West Coast by reason of the extravagance of the adjectives used. Our approach has been a simple and a modest one. It is an approach that I think any people residing in any city, who have an interest generally in the welfare of that city, would take with reference to a business to which it feels it can contribute substantially. We do not envision Siting Hollywood from the West Coast and dropping it into New York City. That would be ridiculous and we realize and know that only too well. We do believe that we have many things here that this industry needs and we feel that the City of New York is entitled to and properly should be given a greater percentage of the production of pictures and that if the facilities, if our scenes, if our backgrounds, if that which we have to contribute are utilized by the industry, it will result not in bitter competition between the West Coast and New York City, or competition between any other center of production and New York City, but it will serve as a stimulant which will bring improvement to the motion picture industry.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1948-01

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J12642