Edison and the Motion Picture Industry: The History of the Development of Moving Images.
This paper examines the role of Thomas Alva Edison in respect to the motion picture industry. Edison is considered my many historians to be the only true innovator of motion pictures, but there are other inventors who worked at the time and also had varied degrees of success. This paper focuses on the development of the phonograph, the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph, and Edison's involvement with the creation of a motion picture studio. 12 pgs. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
