The first true motion-picture recording device, developed by 1893 by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, an employee of Thomas Edison, at Edison's sprawlinglaboratorycomplex in what is now West Orange, New Jersey. "Kineto-" means motion, and "-graph" means drawing or picture. Using this device, Dickson made hundreds of short films in the first motion-picture studio, the Black Maria, which he designed and had built on Edison's grounds (and with Edison's resources, of course). These films were shown to one viewer at a time in Kinetoscopeparlors.
The first true motion-picture recording device, developed by 1893 by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, an employee of Thomas Edison, at Edison's sprawling laboratory complex in what is now West Orange, New Jersey. "Kineto-" means motion, and "-graph" means drawing or picture. Using this device, Dickson made hundreds of short films in the first motion-picture studio, the Black Maria, which he designed and had built on Edison's grounds (and with Edison's resources, of course). These films were shown to one viewer at a time in Kinetoscope parlors.
See also Kinetoscope and Black Maria.