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In the first decade of the 1900s, years before the compact Home Projecting Kinetoscope, Edison marketed an essentially theatrical 35 mm version for domestic use. By the beginning of 1896, Edison was turning his focus to the promotion of a projector technology, the Phantoscope, developed by young inventors Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.
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).
In 1888, Edison commissioned Dickson for the development of what would become the kinetoscope, an early means of playing back motion picture film. [3] Dickson moved later to Edison's "Black Maria" film production studio in West Orange, New Jersey; the bulk of History recounts his experiences working at this studio. [4]
History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph (with Antonia Dickson, MOMA Publications 2000 ISBN 978-0870700385 Facsimile of Dickson's own copy of the book published in 1895) An Authentic Life of Edison. The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. (with Antonia Dickson, 8 volumes. New-York. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1894) [18]
Gordon Hendricks (1917–1980) was an American art and film historian.. In 1961 Hendricks published The Edison Motion Picture Myth in which he showed that it was not Thomas Alva Edison who should be attributed with the invention of the first device for cinema screenings, but in fact William Kennedy Laurie Dickson.
Edison demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29, 1878. The device recorded on a phonograph cylinder using up-down (vertical) motion of the stylus. Edison's patent specified that the audio recording was embossed. U.S. patent 0,200,993 – Acoustic Telegraphs; U.S. patent 0,200,994 – Automatic-Telegraph Perforator and Transmitter
Antonia Isabella Eugénie Dickson (c. 1854 – August 29, 1903) was a writer, lecturer, music composer, and concert pianist. With her brother, William Kennedy Dickson, she authored the History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph, considered the first book on the history of film, and a biography of Thomas Edison.
Thomas Edison had wanted to see if his kinetoscope could capture the smoke from a rifle, [3] so he employed Oakley to film some of her shooting. [4]: 66 In 1894, kinetoscopes were installed in 60 locations in major cities around the country. [5]: 53 Viewing the films cost a nickel. [1]: 55