Filming on the Farm: Hillside Farms’ Connections to the Silver Screen
By Jill Patton A hundred years ago, the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) lugged its bulky filming equipment to Hillside Farms in Shavertown, about five miles outside of Wilkes-Barre. Their mission: record actress Leatrice Joy, who played Sue in Her...
read moreTimes-Leader: “Film presentation recalls Forty Fort’s long-lost studio” by Stephen Mocarsky (July 20th, 2015)
The Wyoming Valley was once home to a motion picture studio, and folks this weekend will have an opportunity to watch one of the silent films made here, along with a Hollywood classic. Families for Forty Fort Park will present the 1917 film “Susie Slips One Over” at...
read moreBlack Bear Film Festival Salon, October 17, 2014: “Women Who Run Away (to Wilkes-Barre): ‘Susie’ and the Image of Transgression in the First Paramount Silent Comedies”
On October 17, 2014, at 5:00 pm, Noreen O’Connor of the King’s College Department of English will present "Women Who Run Away (to Wilkes-Barre): “Susie” and the Image of Transgression in the First Paramount Silent Comedies" at the Black Bear Film Festival Salon....
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