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.

Want to make a movie? You'll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop all three technologies. He was born in ...

Make no mistake, had Thomas Edison succeeded in ... IMP and other non-Edison movie companies countered this with evasive action. "Cameramen kept several cameras on a set," cinema historian Janet ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on October, 19, 1931.) Thomas A. Edison perfected his first invention to save himself work. He was 16, and a telegraph operator. Every hour he was required ...

Thomas Edison ... the phonograph and the motion picture camera from his New Jersey laboratories, as a "rugged eccentric genius." Another Edison movie that focuses on the inventor's propaganda ...

Thomas Edison’s “innovation factory” turned ... patents for iconic inventions like the lightbulb, phonograph, and movie ...

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 ...

WEST ORANGE -- Generations of children who made the pilgrimage to Thomas Edison National ... and to develop a movie camera and start the film industry. Edison worked in the laboratory buildings ...

Paramount and Bad Robot have begun developing a Thomas Edison movie that will depict the legendary ... having invented the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting lightbulb and the phonograph.

Want to make a movie? You’ll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop all three technologies. He was born in ...