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Thomas A Edison
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Between the years 1894 to 1908, Edwin S. Porter was the leading American filmmaker. Follows his movie career, from his first job installing Thomas Edison's Vitascope machines in New York, through his business as a film exhibitor, to his job as head of Edison's movie studio. There he created story films: Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), The Life of an American Fireman (1902-1903), and The Great Train Robbery (1903). By 1909, his film technique was old...
6) Edison album
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The landmark first "peep-show" films that dazzled the viewers of the Kinetoscope were created by Thomas A. Edison and W.K.L. Dickson, and continue to be known as the first revelation of what film would become. Inventor Thomas A. Edison and William. K. L. Dickson, his principal associate, began work on the motion picture project in 1891. In 1894, they began to exhibit films commercially in the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device. Theatrical projection...
Series
Movies begin volume 1
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of films from cinema's formative period. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Age of Edison places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. As Freeberg shows, Edison's greatest invention was not any single technology, but rather his reinvention of the process itself. At Menlo Park he gathered the combination of capital, scientific training, and engineering skill that would evolve into the modern research and development laboratory....