User assistance Help. Tools What links here. Related changes. Printable version. Permanent link. Page information. Browse properties. View source. Log in. Request account. Other inventors in different parts of the world made important discoveries as well. For just one example, in Thomas Armat and Francis Jenkins designed the phantascope. This early movie projector showed the film onto a screen, so that a roomful of people could watch at the same time.
Edison bought the rights to this machine and started making his own projectors. The Lumiere brothers in France were also extremely important in the development of movies. Other inventors also helped find pieces of the puzzle. But, with his huge laboratory here in West Orange, Edison put the pieces of the puzzle together. That is why he is sometimes called the "Father of Motion Pictures. Back to Phonograph For Kids. If a ranger is unavailable to take your call, we kindly ask that you leave us a detailed message with return contact information and we will be happy to get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you. It creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
Dickson and his team also devised the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and, eventually, commercial Kinetoscope presentations" Wikipedia article on William Kennedy Dickson, accessed Kinetescope parlors were supplied with fifty-foot film snippets shot by Dickson, in Edison's "Black Maria" studio. The invention was a widely imitated, international success.
In the Museum of Modern Art published a facsimile edition of Dickson's own annotated copy of this page pamphlet. Image Source: upload. He showed the first demonstration of his films—featuring three of his workers pretending to be blacksmiths—in May The invention inspired French inventors Louis and August Lumiere to develop a movie camera and projector, the Cinematographe, that allowed a large audience to view a film.
Several other cameras and projectors were also developed in the late s. In , Edison sued American Mutoscope and Biograph Pictures, claiming that the studio had infringed on his patent for the Kinetograph. He had entrusted the development of the machine to his assistant, W. However, in , the U. Court of Appeals ruled that although Thomas Edison had patented the Kinetograph, he only owned rights to the sprocket system that moved perforated film through the camera, not the entire concept of the movie camera.
In , Edison and Biograph joined forces with other filmmakers to create the Motion Pictures Patents Company, an organization devoted to protecting patents and keeping other players from entering the film industry.
In , the Supreme Court dissolved the trust, and the Edison Company left the film industry the same year. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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