Thank you to the Cornell Daily Sun for its interest in Ithaca’s moviemaking past. Click the link below to read “Hollywood On Cayuga”: Ithaca’s Cinematic History by Carlin Reyen from The Cornell Daily Sun.
“Hollywood On Cayuga”: Ithaca’s Cinematic History
Julia Nagel/Sun Photography Editor
Ithaca houses the historic Wharton Studio Building in Stewart Park, where the early silent film production originated.
Wharton Studio actors film an action scene in one of Ithaca’s many gorges. (Courtesy of Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)
(Courtesy of Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)
Actors from the Wharton Studio pose in the yard of the Chi Psi fraternity at Cornell University.
(Courtesy of Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)
A band performs in a larger crowd gathered in front of the Wharton Studio.
(Courtesy of Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)
A trolley falling over the Stewart Avenue bridge for a scene in the Wharton Studio’s “Kiss of Blood” (1916).