Now he was back. He'd come to witness the unveiling of a detailed, full-scale replica of The Black Maria, the world's first ...

In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio. He was testing a new device called the kinetograph, an electrically powered camera capable of capturing motion.

were the founding concepts for motion picture cameras and projectors. In 1888 in New York City, the great inventor Thomas Edison and his British assistant William Dickson worried that others were ...

Five separate projects in New Jersey’s film and television sectors got the green light for public grants. A sixth eyes a film studio in West Orange.

Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to the modern motion picture camera.