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2. Kinetoscope - Wikipedia

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   An encounter with the work and ideas of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge appears to have spurred Thomas Edison to pursue the development of a motion picture system. On February 25, 1888, in Orange, New Jersey , Muybridge gave a lecture amid a tour in which he demonstrated his zoopraxiscope , a device that projected sequential images ...

3. Vitascope - Wikipedia

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   Motion pictures soon became starring attractions on the vaudeville bill. Exhibitors could exhibit films from the Edison inventory. [citation needed] The Edison Company developed its own projector known as the Projectoscope or Projecting Kinetoscope in November 1896, and abandoned marketing the Vitascope. [citation needed]

4. Motion Picture Patents Company - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Edison with the licensees of the Motion Picture Patents Company (December 19, 1908). The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope ...

5. Lubin Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   Eventually, Lubin gave up the costly fight with Edison and became part of the Motion Picture Patents Company, a monopoly on production and distribution set up by Edison. In 1915, the Lubin company entered into an agreement to form a film distribution partnership, with Vitagraph Studios , Selig Polyscope Company , and Essanay Studios , known as ...

6. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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   Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

7. History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph

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   The mechanics of primordial motion picture cameras and exhibition are explained, [4] with eponymous emphasis given to the kinetograph, the kinetoscope, and the kinetophonograph. Dickson worked with Edison on the development of these devices, which respectively capture pictures on film, play films back, and combine picture with sound. [5]