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

The film also received a generally grim reception at the festival, further clouding its future. Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison in "The Current War," opening wide on Oct. 25. 101 Studios ...

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 ...

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 ...

In short, if you wanted to be in the movie business, you did so at the pleasure of Thomas Edison. And Edison (via the MPPC) was not one to back down.

Thomas Edison received a patent in 1897 for the projecting kinetoscope, the forerunner of today’s motion-picture film projector. Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had begun work on the project ...

The week of August 27th sees a national holiday JUST for film, the patenting of one of the first pieces of film equipment, ... August 27 - Edison The Terminator - This Week In Movie History - CineFix.

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.

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.