Editing Schenectady, New York (section)

===Film and TV===
* In ''[[Objective, Burma!]]'' (1945), Sid Jacobs (William Prince) tells Mark Williams (Henry Hull) about his house at 791 Crane Street in Schenectady. He had taught at Pleasant Valley school before the war.
* In the 1952 [[Looney Tunes]] short ''[[Fool Coverage]]'', [[Daffy Duck]] plays an insurance salesman from the Hotfoot Casualty Underwriters Insurance Company of Schenectady.
* In the 1950s television series ''[[The Honeymooners]]'', Trixie's mother is from Schenectady.
* ''[[The Way We Were]]'' (1973) was filmed on location at Union College, and in nearby [[Ballston Spa, New York|Ballston Spa]].
* The 1980s film ''[[Heart Like a Wheel (film)|Heart Like a Wheel]]'' is mostly set in Schenectady.
* The 1996 made-for-TV film ''[[Unabomber: The True Story]]'' starring Robert Hays as David Kaczynski, brother of unabomber [[Ted Kaczynski]], refers to Schenectady, where David and his wife were living when they figured out his brother's involvement in the bombings.
* ''[[The Time Machine (2002 film)|The Time Machine]]'' (2002), the remake starring [[Guy Pearce]], features Schenectady's Central Park in the ice skating scenes, standing in for New York City's Central Park.
* ''[[Synecdoche, New York]]'' (2008) is a film partially set in Schenectady, where some scenes were shot. It plays on the aural similarity between the city's name and the figure of speech [[synecdoche]].
* In the ABC-TV series ''[[Ugly Betty]]'', Marc St. James (played by [[Michael Urie]]) is said to be from Schenectady.
* ''[[Winter of Frozen Dreams]]'' (2009) was entirely filmed in Schenectady County, but is set in Wisconsin, where the historic events took place. It features the Schenectady, the [[Rotterdam (town), New York|Town of Rotterdam]], and the Village of Scotia, all in New York. The film stars [[Thora Birch]] as Barbara Hoffman, the historic Wisconsin murderer, and [[Keith Carradine]] as a detective determined to catch her.
* ''[[The Place Beyond the Pines]]'' (2013), starring [[Bradley Cooper]] and [[Ryan Gosling]], was filmed locally in 2011 near the Schenectady Police Headquarters and other areas of Schenectady.
* In the NBC sitcom ''[[Will & Grace]]'', Schenectady is the hometown of character [[Grace Adler]] (played by [[Debra Messing]]).