Film

The Champion: A Story of America’s First Film Town

Tells the story of a major American film capital before Hollywood.... Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Top cast

Matt Zoller Seitz

Narrator

Patti Harris

Gene Gauntier (voice)

Lee Gordon

Carl Laemmle (voice)

Si Hawk

Louis Reeves Harrison (voice)

Maxwell Glick

Victor Company Salesman (voice)

Pete Scalzitti

Park F. Hanley (voice)

Joshua Zirger

Moving Picture Magazine Writer (voice)

Oliver Gettell

Marc J. Perez

John L. Sikes, Tom Meyers