Editing New Jersey (section)

=====Television and film production=====
{{Main|Television and film of New Jersey}}

New Jersey is a growing center for [[filmmaking]] and [[television production]],<ref name=NewJerseyFilmTelevsionProductionHub1>{{cite web|url=https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/hollywood-east-inside-new-jerseys-thriving-film-and-tv-industries/|title=Hollywood East: Inside New Jersey's Thriving Film and TV Industries|author=Jacqueline Mroz|publisher=New Jersey Monthly|date=November 18, 2022|access-date=February 28, 2023|archive-date=February 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228180613/https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/hollywood-east-inside-new-jerseys-thriving-film-and-tv-industries/|url-status=live}}</ref> with [[digital media|media companies]], enticed by its proximity to [[Manhattan]], in conjunction with [[tax incentive]]s, collectively spending billions of dollars to develop large new [[film studio|studio facilities]] and [[sound stage]] complexes.<ref name=NewJerseyFilmTelevisionProductionHub2>{{cite web|url=https://jerseydigs.com/netflix-studio-new-jersey/|title=Netflix Bets Big on New Jersey, Unveils $900M Mega-Studio|author=Chris Fry|publisher=Jersey Digs|date=February 28, 2023|access-date=February 28, 2023|archive-date=February 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228183713/https://jerseydigs.com/netflix-studio-new-jersey/|url-status=live}}</ref> Motion picture technology was developed by [[Thomas Edison]], with much of his early work done at his [[West Orange, New Jersey|West Orange]] laboratory. [[Edison's Black Maria]] was the first motion picture studio. [[America's first motion picture industry]] started in 1907 in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey|Fort Lee]] and the first studio was constructed there in 1909.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fortleefilm.org/|title=Fort Lee Film Commission &#124; Fort Lee, NJ|publisher=Fortleefilm.org|access-date=May 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420104317/http://www.fortleefilm.org/|archive-date=April 20, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> [[DuMont Laboratories]] in [[Passaic, New Jersey|Passaic]] developed early sets and made the first broadcast to the private home.

A number of television shows and films have been filmed in New Jersey. Since 1978, the state has maintained a Motion Picture and Television Commission to encourage filming in-state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.njfilm.org/|title=NJ Motion Picture & Television Commission|publisher=Njfilm.org|access-date=May 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510000920/http://www.njfilm.org/|archive-date=May 10, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> New Jersey has long offered tax credits to television producers. Governor Chris Christie suspended the credits in 2010, but the [[New Jersey State Legislature]] in 2011 approved the restoration and expansion of the tax credit program. Under bills passed by both the state Senate and Assembly, the program offers 20 percent tax credits (22% in [[urban enterprise zone]]s) to television and film productions that shoot in the state and meet set standards for hiring and local spending.<ref name=crewsback>{{cite news|last=Wright|first=E. Assata|title=Getting the film crews back to NJ Gov. to decide future of tax credit that benefited Hudson County|work=Hudson Reporter|date=February 20, 2011|url=http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/11505447/article-Getting-the-film-crews-back-to-NJ-Gov--to-decide-future-of-tax-credit-that-benefited-Hudson-County-?|access-date=February 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712230629/http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/11505447/article-Getting-the-film-crews-back-to-NJ-Gov--to-decide-future-of-tax-credit-that-benefited-Hudson-County-|archive-date=July 12, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> When Governor Phil Murphy took office, he instated the New Jersey Film & Digital Media Tax Credit Program in 2018 and expanded it in 2020. The benefits include a 30% tax credit on film projects and a 40% subsidy for studio developments.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bergeron |first1=Tom |title=Every state is looking to take business from Georgia — here's why N.J. has legitimate chance to do so |url=https://www.roi-nj.com/2021/04/05/opinion/editors-desk/every-state-is-looking-to-take-business-from-georgia-heres-why-n-j-has-legitimate-chance-to-do-so/ |access-date=April 7, 2021 |work=ROI NJ |archive-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405185516/https://www.roi-nj.com/2021/04/05/opinion/editors-desk/every-state-is-looking-to-take-business-from-georgia-heres-why-n-j-has-legitimate-chance-to-do-so/ |url-status=live }}</ref>