Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Before Hollywood traces the history of cinema to a collection of factories and workshops in 18th and 19th-century Philadelphia. Opening in the 1970s with Garrett Brown, whose Steadicam reinvented cinematography, the film discovers the source of the moving picture in the studio of Founding Father Charles Willson Peale. Before Hollywood pulls back the curtain on a vital new chapter in motion picture history.
From History Making Productions: historymakingproductions.com
AWARDS
Mid-Atlantic Regional emmy awards
Best Documentary (2018)
Best Editing (2018)
Best original music (2018)
Before Hollywood traces the history of cinema to a collection of factories and workshops in 18th and 19th-century Philadelphia. Opening in the 1970s with Garrett Brown, whose Steadicam reinvented cinematography, the film discovers the source of the moving picture in the studio of Founding Father Charles Willson Peale. Before Hollywood pulls back the curtain on a vital new chapter in motion picture history.
From History Making Productions: historymakingproductions.com
AWARDS
Mid-Atlantic Regional emmy awards
Best Documentary (2018)
Best Editing (2018)
Best original music (2018)
