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Inventing Entertainment: The Edison Companies, showcases
the work of prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Known
as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," Edison patented 1,093 inventions,
including the phonograph, the kinetograph (a motion picture camera),
and the kinetoscope (a motion picture viewer). In addition to being
a renowned inventor, Edison became a prominent manufacturer and
businessman by selling his inventions. This site features 341 motion
pictures, 81 sound recordings, photographs, original articles, and
other related materials.
These online exhibits provide context and additional
information about this collection.
Edison
Biography
Edison
Motion Pictures: The Edison Manufacturing Co. and Thomas A. Edison,
Inc.
Edison
Sound Recordings: The National Phonograph Co. and Thomas A. Edison,
Inc.
Timeline
for Inventing Entertainment
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915
Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
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Alexander
Graham Bell Papers, 1862-1939
American Treasures
of the Library of Congress
Built in
America, Historic Building and Engineering, 1933-Present
Great Earthquake
and Fire: San Francisco, 1897-1916
Inside
an American Factory: Westinghouse Works, 1904
Last Days
of a President: Films of McKinley, 1901
The Life
of a City: New York, 1898-1906
Origins
of American Animation
The Spanish-American
War in Pictures, 1898-1901
Recommended additional sources of information.
Bibliography
Read More
About It! - A bibliography
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
To search for films throughout all American Memory collections,
use the All
Collections Search Engine.
Be sure to limit your search results to “Motion Pictures.”
Search all items in the collection using the keyword Search
and Subject
Index.
Browse only motion pictures using Alphabetical
Title List of Edison Motion Pictures and Motion
Picture Subject Index.
Browse only sound recordings using Alphabetical
List of Edison Disc Titles and Sound
Recordings Subject Index.
For help with search words, go to the Synonym
List. For help with search strategies, see Finding
Items in American Memory.
Please Note: The Alphabetical Title List on the Inventing
Entertainment Home Page links to the database and search engine
of the defunct American Memory collection, Early Motion Pictures.
The contents of Early Motion Pictures are now available
in a variety of film-related American Memory collections. To remain
within the Inventing Entertainment collection, please
browse for files using either the Alphabetical Title List of Edison
Motion Pictures
or Edison
Disc Titles.
Viewing the motion pictures and listening to the sound recordings
in this collection will require a special viewer and player. For
help with viewers and players, go to American
Memory Viewer Information.
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