In 1893, Edison’s workers built the world’s first film production studio, the Black Maria, on the grounds of Edison’s laboratories to make movies with the Kinetoscope. The technology required bright ...

Thanks to Thomas Edison, the first movies were shot in New Jersey. Universal, Metro, Goldwyn and Fox Studios were all founded ...

Thomas Edison made film history in 1893 when he built the first motion picture studio — Black Maria in West Orange. This week, the same town is celebrating the approval of a new film studio.

In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio. He was testing a new device called the kinetograph, an electrically powered camera capable of capturing motion.

The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival has given power to creativity and short films for the past 39 years. Named after Edison’s original film studio in West Orange, the 39th Black Maria ...

New Jersey was the birthplace of the American film industry, housing the first movie studio, Black Maria, built by Thomas Edison in 1893. Film production shifted to California in the 1920s due to ...