New Jersey Economic Development Authority CEO Tim Sullivan expects investments from Netflix and Lionsgate to drive the state ...

The movie fad also brought celebrities to Edison's little room in West Orange to be photographed — including sure-shot Annie Oakley, bodybuilder Eugen Sandow (the Ahhh-nold of his day), boxer ...

New Jersey has another claim in cinematic history: Thomas Edison developed his sound-movie invention, the kinetophone, in West Orange.

Edison assembled representatives of the nation's biggest movie companies—Biograph, Vitagraph, American Mutoscope, and seven others—and invited them to sign a monopolistic peace treaty.

Titled Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, or Fred Ott’s Sneeze, the film simply shows an employee hamming it up for the camera with a dramatized sneeze.

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a movie that he hopes will expose the truth about inventor Thomas Edison.. In an interview with the National Review, Beck said that, although Edison is ...

The Edison catalog called this movie, one of the most famous early films, a "sensational and highly tragic subject" that "will certainly make a decided 'hit' whenever shown.In every respect we ...

You’ve probably heard about Thomas Edison’s infamous 1903 film where he electrocuted an elephant. It’s just as horrifying as you’d imagine. But fewer ...

S pecial effects have always been a major part of cinema history, and the very first instance of their use came in 1895, in a ...

Explore Edison's groundbreaking zoetrope improvement featuring Fred Ott! Witness the earliest motion picture experiments and a dancing figure in Edison's first movie.