When inventor Thomas Edison first began toying ... and patented his single-camera device 115 years ago today, August 31, 1897, Edison was well on his way to launching the American film industry ...

A Kinetoscope parlor in San Francisco, circa 1894, analogous to a movie theater ... date in 1891 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph, his first version of a moving-picture camera.

The invention of the video camera has a mysterious history. In the 1890s, American inventor Thomas Edison received a patent for his kinetograph, an early video camera, and was credited as its ...

“I believe Thomas Edison invented the camera to film people beating the s*it out of each other. It really affects the audience in a big way, but at the same time, you know it’s just a movie.

More than 1,000 patents for iconic inventions like the lightbulb, phonograph, and movie camera ... Be More Like Thomas Edison. So take a look around your workplace. What do you see?

Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which ...

Special effects have always been a major part of cinema history, and the very first instance of their use came in 1895, in a ...

In 1878, Thomas ... Edison’s Menlo Park lab had expanded to fill two city blocks. He and his team would go on to invent dozens of other technical marvels including the motion picture camera ...

Edison died on October 18, 1931, three months after the video was taken. He was 84. The eight digitized videos were taken on 16 mm Kodak safety film and stored in the Thomas Edison National ...