By: centraljersey.com
ROBBINSVILLE – Mystery writer Kate Gallison read many histories and biographies and watched many silent movies while she was doing research for "The Edge of Ruin" and "The Brink of Fame," historical mystery novels she wrote under the name of Irene Fleming.
At 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Robbinsville branch of the Mercer County Library, Miss Gallison will give an illustrated talk on the things she discovered about early moving pictures in New Jersey.
She will show the movies themselves from the first little wiggling image produced by the Edison laboratory in 1891 to a thriller made in Hollywood in 1914.
Hear about the development of the movies from arcade peep shows to early attempts at an art form – "The Great Train Robbery," directed by Edwin S. Porter, a one-reel film from D.W. Griffith and an early Hollywood feature from C.B. DeMille.
The library is at 42 Allentown-Robbinsville Road. To register, call 609-259-2150.
