The Birth And Growth Of Movies
In 1929, Thomas Edison was awarded the first honorary Academy Award in recognition of his contributionsto the movie industry. The motion picture industry in the United States owes much of its success to Mr. Edison who was a pioneer in “moving pictures”. He was instrumental in shifting the industry from Europe to the United States during World War I.
Edison’s first movie opened in New York City in 1894, in a storefront location he referred to as a “movie parlor”.Get more information here. http://crisskross.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/thomas-alva-edison/ Here, patrons watched a series of short clips on Edison’s kinetoscopes. Edison went on to work with such iconic figures as George Eastman of Eastman-Kodak fame and Thomas Armat who had developed a functioning movie projector. The cradle of this fledgling industry was not as you might imagine Hollywood, it was New Jersey where Edison had established his studio.
Edison’s was the leading figure in the industry for years. His studio closed in 1918 as tastes and styles changed. His company had produced nearly twelve hundred feature films including The Great Train Robbery and had employed such famous actors as Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
Without a doubt, Hollywood and the world owes much to Thomas A. Edison, one of the foremost American film giants, and a leading contibutor to the birth and growth of movies.
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