New Jersey already has impressive claims in the realm of cinematic history. Fort Lee was America's film capital before Hollywood. Thomas Edison built what is considered the first movie studio, in West ...

The Kinetoscope is one of the earliest machines used in exhibiting early motion pictures before the turn of the 20th Century. Invented by Thomas Edison, the device was designed for individuals to view ...

On February 17, 1913, after many years of R+D, Thomas Alva Edison introduced the Edison Kinetophone to an enthusiastic New York audience. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of ...

The Edison Quartet perform songs as blacksmiths. This was one of 200 projects produced using the Edison Kinetophone system. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking ...