Edison's short, silent film of famous gunslinger Annie Oakley, “Little Sureshot,” proved his kinetograph was a success.

History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophotograph is a facsimile edition of the first-ever published history of film written by W.K.L. Dickson and his sister Antonia Dickson more than ...

Culture August 24, 2015 August 24, 1891: Thomas Edison Receives a Patent for His Movie Camera, the Kinetograph “Members of society saw themselves in moving-pictures last night and enjoyed the ...

1 The first celluloid roll film was developed in 1887 by Hannibal Goodwin, an Episcopalian minister from Newark, New Jersey. 2 In 1891 Thomas Edison’s company demonstrated the Kinetograph, the first ...

CORBETT AND COURTNEY BEFORE THE KINETOGRAPH, 1894 Dir. William K.L. Dickson and William Heise, starring James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney. The first film to be made about boxing.

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph Read more ...