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Answer to Mike Conway's Question

Posted By: Tom Meyers
Date: Thursday, 20 January 2005, at 4:04 p.m.

Per visitor feedback question sent to us from Mike Conway on Consolidated Film:

The website doesn't get into the film storage era as we concentrate on the actual studio production era.  However, Consolidated was located on Main Street in West Fort Lee at the site of the Universal Studios.  Consolidated was a division of Republic Pictures and operated out of this site through the early 1960s.  Bonded Storage took over and was the final film storage company at this site (Bonded's original film storage site was on Lemoine Avenue in the old Solax Studio buildings where the A&P eventually was built  - adjacent to the high school).  The buildings came down within the last decade with the final building being demolished within the last year.  We  fought to save this last building and to get a historic designation for it but the town purchased it and wanted to remove the building.  We are working to get historic designtations for the remaining buildings in town with links to the era of film production.  Our greatest help is an awareness by the public of this history and to that end we had our first historic jitney tour of film sites during our June 2004 Arts & Music Festival and we took over 200 people on tours of these sites.  We plan on doing this again for our June 5 noon to 6pm Fort Lee Arts & Music Fair (Main Street between Center and Lemoine).  In addition we are placing historic markers at the  sites of the studios and we will publish a map so people can take a walking tour of these sites.

There is one remaining film storage facility in Fort Lee and it is located in the historic Brulatour Building on Jane Street near the DPW yard,  Photobition Bonded leases the building.  We are fortunate because they store the films the Fort Lee Film Commission collect and preserve at no charge.

The newly published book "Fort Lee: The Film Town" by Rutgers Professor and Fort Lee Film Commission member Richard Koszarski has a chapter that discusses the film storage industry in Fort Lee.  The book is available at Borders in Fort Lee, the Fort Lee Library and through this office. Hope this info helps.  Thanks for the questions.

 

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