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In 1910 promising film producer Mark Dintenfass made the trek to a sleepy little village across the Hudson River called Fort Lee, New Jersey. With a mixture of amazingly interchangeable scenery close to New York City’s Broadway talent, it was the perfect location to shoot pictures.
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When Mark Dintenfass arrived in Fort Lee in 1910, the sleepy New Jersey town just a ferry ride away from Manhattan was already a favorite location for nickelodeon-era filmmakers. Why not, he reasoned, build a studio and save on the expense and hassle of travel across the Hudson?
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In 1910 promising film producer Mark Dintenfass made the trek to a sleepy little village across the Hudson River called Fort Lee, New Jersey. With a mixture of amazingly interchangeable scenery close to New York City’s Broadway talent, it was the perfect location to shoot pictures.
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Sep 23, 2017 · A man named Mark Dintenfass founded Champion Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1910. Other studios followed, and used the wooded Jersey countryside to film westerns. The bluffs over the Hudson proved ideal for suspense scenes.
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The Champion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M. Dintenfass. [1] [2] [3] [4] The studio was one of the film companies that merged to form Universal Pictures.
Mark M. was a producer, known for Between Two Husbands (1922), My Four Years in Germany (1918) and Love That Never Fails (1912). Mark M. was married to Esther Wallace. Mark M. died on 23 November 1933 in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA.
