DANCING IN THE DARK.

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    • Subject Terms:
      EDISON SpA
    • Subject Terms:
      EDISON: The Invention of the Movies (Film); GREAT Train Robbery, The (Film)
    • Subject Terms:
      EDISON, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard, 1830-1904
    • Abstract:
      The article reports on inventor Thomas Edison's role in the filmmaking business. Edison worked with the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge to invent the kinetoscope, a device that worked like a flipbook to show moving pictures. Edison installed the machines in penny arcades across America. The article argues that Edison was not interested in the aesthetic side of the new technology he was developing, he was purely interested in making money to finance further experimentation. The films produced by the Edison Company have been released on DVD in the boxed set "Edison: The Invention of the Movies." Edison scored a major hit with "The Great Train Robbery," the first fully narrative film, but his later movies were artistically uninteresting.