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The Birth Of The First Movie Studio

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The history of movie-making is a fascinating topic. Thomas Edison was very key in the starting and founding of the movie-making industry. He began his endeavors by inventing the first video camera which he called the “kinetoscope”. And with the kinetoscope he started filming, which led the the building of the first movie studio in the United States. He chose to build it near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey. He started to build the “Black Maria”, or what came to be known also as the “Kinetographic Theater”, in December of 1892. It cost him a whopping 637.67. He started filming there and inviting circus and vaudeville actors to perform in front of his kinetoscope. Edison started to distribute these films at theaters and fairgrounds. Eventually, word got around about his new invention, and Edison was invited to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to show-case the amazing kinetoscope. He showed a film he had made of three people pretending to be blacksmiths. Now we don’t know the story-line or moral of Edison’s blacksmith story, or if there even was one. But we do know that Edison helped shape an industry that would take the world by storm.

Fred Ott And The Fake Sneeze

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In 1890, one of the first ever short films was made and released in 1894. This was also the first piece of copyrighted film ever in the United States. The film piece was entitled “Fred Ott’s Sneeze,’ and lasted for about five seconds. While it is commonly referred to as film, the process used to create the film actually used a series of still photographs taken at high speed. The entire five seconds of footage includes Fred Ott taking a pinch of snuff, and then sneezing.

While this may seem to be a fairly mundane film subject, it is not what can be seen on the film that makes it amazing. It is the process and what it has led to through the years that makes this film short so awesome. This is also one of the earliest surviving motion pictures in existence. It is the predecessor to all the films you see today. Like the first caveman to draw in the dirt with a stick, it is the artist showing others what can be done. This is what leads to all the films to follow. “Fred Ott’s Sneeze’ is amazing to watch when one considers all that has come from this short five second motion picture.If you like what you see, keep going: Watch the Full Fan-Made TMNT Casey Jones short film

How The Kinetograph Has Changed The World

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Kinetograph was Thomas Edison-s invention that started the entire film industry. It differed from prior attempts to capture moving images by running long strips of celluloid film behind a camera’s lens. While the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in 1902 that Edison could only patent the mechanisms for doing this, not the idea, for most of the following century any filmmaking merely innovated Edison-s design.

The 20th Century-s historical record in film traces back to Edison- s Kinetograph. Print stories and still photographs could not communicate ” or mediate ” the full intensity of historic events the way that moving pictures could.Confused? Here ‘s a little help . It likely made the biggest difference in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. In difficult times movie houses offered an inexpensive escape. During the war, news reels brought the battlefront to the home front.

The truth of film became a two-edged sword. Film footage that Adolf Hitler used to document his final solution proved Third Reich travesties to the world. At the same time, French and U.S. D-Day footage seemed too graphic for audiences then. Shelved for decades, its release in the 1990s acted like a time machine, and brought more serious and realistic dialogue about war. The Kinetograph has changed the world by changing the way people see themselves, and influencing how they act on what they perceive.

Thomas Edison’s Many Interests

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the light bulb but did you know he was such a renaissance man? T.E. had his hand in so many things we wouldn’t be surprised if someone told us he helped develop the first generation Direct TV! All joking aside, here are a few of the things we bet you didn’t know Edison was into
Cement – Edison founded a cement company and tried to make it as numerous as steel. It didn’t exactly take off but that wouldn’t be the end of his rock and structure fascination.
Submarine Detection – The government actually employed Edison during WWI to help find a way to detect covert subs in the water. He did that, no big deal, because he thought that technology was surely the way to win wars.
Motion Pictures – You know by now if you’ve been reading the blog that Edison was very into motion pictures. He had his own studio and is responsible for some of the major advancements that took place in the early days of film.
What couldn’t Edison do? You tell us!

Edison’s Early Experimentation With Motion Pictures

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

When you hear the name, Thomas Edison, what comes to mind? A light bulb? In reality, Thomas didn’t invent the light bulb; he improved upon it. His contributions to science still impact our world today. Edison invented and improved devices for communication, and for the distribution of electric light, power, and heat. He was quite a forward thinker, and the light bulb isn’t the only thing he stepped up a notch. He was intrigued by setting pictures in motion as well.
While primitive inventions existed that would make images seem to move, there was nothing that truly came anywhere close to what could be called a “movie.I was looking for more information and found it here.” Edison had already invented a way to record voice with the phonograph, and he wanted to record and reproduce objects in motion as well.
In 1891 the product of this desire was born, and he called it the Kinetoscope. In his laboratories, Thomas was able to invent a single camera that could record successive images. This invention revolutionized motion picture devices. It was much more practical than other methods that utilized multiple cameras, and it was a more cost effective mode of capture. The first movies made by Edison had no sound, but in 1912 he invented the Kinetophone, which allowed for “talking” motion pictures.

Adventurous Scenes: Bringing Excitement To Entertainment

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

People love to be entertained. Every year people spend tons of money looking for something that can amaze them. Some people find a local event, amusement park, or outdoor activity that they can get excited about. Others may leave the states that they are in and travel in search of something that will put some excitement in entertainment.

Many people travel to places like Las Vegas in order to find an exciting adventure. There are live shows that bring entertainers from a variety of locations. There are also different amusement parks that bring thrills in the form of rides. People have a variety of ways to experience fun. Sometimes people have to look for it, but there is always a way to add a bit of excitement regardless of the time of the year.

It’s surprising to some people, but some exciting events are even free. Certain events occur at special times of the year, and they are often free to the public. These are usually events that are sponsored by the county or the city.

Exciting entertainment venues are always found in the big cities. The best events can be found on the internet through chamber of commerce sites.

A Breakdown Of How The Kinetoscope Worked

admin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Not quite a movie projector but not quite a flip-motion book, the invention of the Kinetoscope marked the beginning of the motion picture era. It combined the logic behind a flip-motion book with a mechanism that allowed minimum work on behalf of the viewer, creating the illusion of motion with a basic sequence of images flashed over a light. This was accomplished by attaching the film to a pair of spindles and a sprocket, then ran the film over an electric lamp. After some difficulty, Einstein’s lab succeeded in making the mechanism fit into a wooden box, allowing it to be used easily by the public.

These images bore a great resemblance to the film we know today; the only difference between the two is that the Kinetoscope was meant for one viewer alone and could not be projected. By peering into a small hole at the top of a pine box, the viewer could see what appeared to be moving images. Really, these images were a series of stop-motion photographs taken by a camera that Einstein’s lab developed for the purpose of enhancing the Kinetoscope experience.

Although the Kinetoscope was the first step to motion pictures, Einstein’s lab was not successful in creating a soundtrack that would spin in time with the images being pulled across the light.

The Birth And Growth Of Movies

www.edisonfilm.com — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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”. 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.