Thomas Edison made film history in 1893 when he built the first motion picture studio — Black Maria in West Orange. This week, the same town is celebrating the approval of a new film studio ...

"Edison assigned the motion picture development to him," DeGraaf said. "He was the principal experimenter on the project." The replica Black Maria stands at the northwest corner of the lot.

Motion picture camera: Edison was the first inventor to introduce a commercial motion picture camera. But he never developed a movie projector. His films were first exhibited on viewers called ...

In 1891, Edison worked with his employee, William K.L. Dickson, to develop the Kinetograph, the first motion picture camera, which used a series of small photos on a cylinder to produce a moving image ...

In 1896, Thomas Edison, the original American motion picture producer, in all senses of the word, collaborated with the illustrator J. Stuart Blackton for a brief vignette entitled Blackton, the ...

Thomas Edison had been the leading pioneer of the first kinetoscopes, an early motion picture viewing device, and then projected motion pictures. His FRANKENSTEIN was filmed in 1910 at Edison Motion ...

“A film studio in Downtown West Orange, situated at the heart where motion pictures were invested in the Black Maria, Edison’s first film production studio, is not only fitting but is poised ...

Thomas Edison is widely regarded as one of the most celebrated inventors in American history, pioneering technologies like the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion-picture camera.