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Lights, Camera… Action!

By Matthew Biddle - July 15, 2013

From the unveiling of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope to Buffalo’s Film Row to The Natural, which filmed 30 years ago this summer, we have a long and colorful history with the movie business.

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