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VHS video cassette: "Delivered Vacant," a 1992 documentary film about Hoboken by resident & filmmaker Nora Jacobson.

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VHS video cassette of "Delivered Vacant." 1992: Nora Jacobson, Island Pictures. VHS, color, 118 minutes. AS of 2004, per curator Robert Foster, this copy was destroyed while on loan to an unspecified individual. Per catalog of Loeb Library, Harvard Univ.: Documents the struggles in Hoboken, New Jersey, between advocates for maintaining low and middle income affordable housing and developers aiming at more profitable buyers of luxury condominiums. Beginning in the 1980's, tenants faced losing their homes in often run-down buildings and formed associations to influence the mayor, city council, and state legislature as the process of gentrification transformed long-established neighborhoods. ------------ The film took 8 years to complete. Jacobson produced, wrote and directed it. It was selected as an official entry in the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco Film Festival, where it won a Golden Gate Award. The credits at the end of the film include a long list of individuals seen in it as well as a large number of supporters. See notes for a short biography of Jacobson.

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Jacobson, Nora

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Gift of Nora Jacobson

Jacobson, Nora

1992 - 1992

Date: 1992-1992

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Display Value: Fair Notes: From: Northern.Stage@VALLEY.NET (Northern Stage), All Rights Reserved Excerpt from 1/11/2001 article: Northern Stage previews new film script Nora Jacobson is an independent filmmaker who lives and works in the Upper Valley [VT]. The daughter of an actress and playwright, Jacobson attended Dartmouth College and the School of Fine Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned an M.F.A. in filmmaking. She has taught filmmaking for many years, most recently at the State University of New York at Purchase. In 1993 her film, "Delivered Vacant," an eight-year chronicle of urban gentrification, was selected as an official entry in the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco Film Festival, where it won a Golden Gate Award. Jacobson has received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She most recently completed her first dramatic feature film, "My Mother's Early Lovers." ---------------------------------------------------------------- From 2002 on-line catalog of Urban Studies: DELIVERED VACANT Hoboken, New Jersey—"Naples on the Hudson" to some, a square mile of prime real estate to others. Filmmaker Nora Jacobson spent eight years documenting Hoboken's battles over gentrification, from boom in the '80s to bust in the '90s. This epic, dramatially engrossing documentary features a real-life cast of long-time residents, newly arrived Yuppies, tenants' organizers, real estate developers, street people, immigrants from around the world, and local politicians. Directed by Nora Jacobson 1992, color, 118 mins., VHS Purchase: $395 Rental: $150 Original or Copy: Video Copy Status: Lost Status By: dw Status Date: 2002-08-11