Before La La Land, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey

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  NPR. All right.

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  Darien's taking us on a little hike through pre-Hollywood history.

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  Alexi and I are climbing up a steep path in Fort Lee,

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  New Jersey to tell the origin story of American filmmaking.

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  We're kicking off our week-long series on the economics of movies here.

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  Because before Hollywood, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson River.

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  You can see Manhattan on the other side.

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  Yeah, the center of the movie-making world was...

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  Filmed here, this is where the term cliffhanger was popularized, on these very cliffs.

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  Wow, and you can kind of tell why.

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  They're really stark, jagged, very tall cliffs.

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  We're right at the edge here.

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  And, Alexi, I brought this rope here.

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  I don't know if that looks...

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  Is that strong enough to support human body weight?

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  I thought we could re-enact one of these silent films with you dangling off the cliff.

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  Well, I still do have a lot of questions that we need to answer in this show.

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  There's only one way to make people stick around to find out.

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  This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darien Woods.

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