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Pathé Studio (Jersey City, New Jersey)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / Jersey City, New Jersey
 film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object, film distribution

Congress Street, 1
The second American location of the pioneering French movie company, Société Pathé Frères. After a fire burned down their New York studio, they built this facility in ca 1910. That same year they built a west coast studio, and later would buy some significant real estate (RKO in Culver City) for movie production and distribution.

The official address of the studio was 1 Congress. It was bound by Patterson Plank Rd. on the east, Congress St. on the north, and Ogden Ave. on the west.

In ca 1912 Pathé shot their most famous serial, "The Perils of Pauline" at the studio, and on the cliffs of the Palisades. Each episode ended with Pauline's life threatened, many time hanging off a cliff, from which she would be rescued in the next episode. This is the genesis of the term "cliffhanger" to describe how one episode or season ends with a tension that is resolved with the next episode or season opener.

Once Pathé abandoned the site in 1916, it was the first studio location of Astra Film Corp until 1921, when it moved to Verdugo Road in Glendale, CA.

This location was sold in 1932 to Consolidated Film Industries, the country's largest motion picture processing lab at the time, who bought several properties here in New Jersey, and owned several properties in Hollywood, including Republic Pictures in Studio City.

The Pathé building still stands today, though it looks nothing like it did in the day.
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Coordinates:   40°44'53"N   74°2'24"W

Comments

  • Lori Edens (guest)
    Pathe movie studio is long gone! Not still standing for at leaSt 70 years. The house across the street on Ogden ave , was the rooming house the stars and workers used to live in while making movie still stands. Located at 443 ogden. I know because I grew up in that house. And path was gone long before I was born. My mother barely remembered pathetic being there.
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