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1939 - USA: Motion Pictures, MoMA; Fort Lee, NJ Studios; MGM Studio’s & Nick Schenck

Reel Number: 220585-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1939,1930s

Country: USA

Location: NEW YORK CITY, FORT LEE, New Jersey

TC Begins: 11:37:55

TC Ends: 11:45:49

Duration: 00:07:54

1939 - USA: Motion Pictures, MoMA; Fort Lee, NJ Studios; MGM Studio’s & Nick Schenck Projection room at Museum of Modern Art MoMA showing war film re Japan. 11:38:0? MCU Man’s hands repairing / assembling part of projector (?), tools on workbench. 11:38:5? Iris Berry sitting at moviola-type projection machine screening film, taking notes. 11:41:06 Ext. Dilapidated buildings of Fort Lee Film Studios w/ broken glass in walls, CU door w/ fading sign: Evelyn Nesbit. Old film reels, etc. lying in weeds. CUs. 11:42:?? Ext. NYC office building entrance w/ Biograph Studios , Inc. sign on building. Sign CU. 11:43:?? Ext. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Eastern Studios, Harlem. St. sign: 127th. Slug. 11:43:32 Nick Schenck at desk - secretary brings papers - on telephone. Repeats. Movies; History; East Coast; Studios; Executives; NOTE: Schenck was active in Loew’s Theatres & MGM.

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