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Before Hollywood: Early Filmmaking in New York State

July 21, 2023 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians PodcastThis week on the Historians Podcast, film historian Audrey Kupferberg discusses filmmaking in New York State before the Hollywood era.

Audrey Kupferberg is a film commentator for WAMC public radio in Albany. She is an emeritus lecturer in film history at the University at Albany and previously was director of the film study center at Yale.

She has written books about popular culture, many of them written with her late husband Rob Edelman. She lives in Amsterdam, New York.

She is a film historian and moving image archivist who favorite period of film history is the 1910s through 1946.

You can listen to the podcast here.

You will find many of our 483 podcasts archived at at bobcudmore.com. The Historians Podcast has been online weekly since 2014 produced by Bob Cudmore and Dave Greene.

For a full list of this week’s New York Almanack podcasts announcements click HERE.

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