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Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. [web presentation]
- Title
- Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. [web presentation]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1891-1922
- Bulk: 1891-1922
- Language
- English
- Form
- web presentation
- Abstract
- This online digital presentation focuses on prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison's invention of the phonograph, the kinetograph (a motion picture camera), and the kinetoscope (a motion picture viewer). In addition to offering histories of these inventions and Edison, this site contains some of the surviving products of Edison's entertainment inventions and industries, including motion pictures and sound recordings of prominent musicians, singers, and vaudeville performers of the period; and motion pictures of events, places, prominent people, dramas and comedies.
- Contents Note
- 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings
- Preferred Citation
- Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
- Subjects
- Electronic Music
- Popular Music
- Vaudeville
- Edison, Thomas
- Repository
- Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
- Online Collection
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
Last Updated: 02-01-2011