"The Ghosts Are Alive:" Tom Meyers, Fort Lee Film Commission Featured in NY Times

The silent film industry and its roots, from right here in Fort Lee to Ithaca, N.Y., were the subject of a recent article posted to the New York Times website.

The feature looks at technology's role in bringing alive the history of early cinema.

"With help from the Web, fans of those films can hike along parking lots, weedy streambeds and gritty alleys where early screen actors posed as American Indians, Confederate soldiers, Soviet spies, Dickens characters and escaped convicts," writes Eve M. Khan.

Fort Lee Patch Blogger and Fort Lee Film Commission Executive Director Tom Meyers plays a prominent role in the article, taking Khan on a two hour journey around the borough.

“The ghosts are alive, there’s no doubt about that,” Meyers told the New York Times during the nostalgia-rich tour.

Read the full article here.