Documentary “The Man Called Edison” Thomas Edison, the Motion Picture Camera & Industry (1970)

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Produced in 1970 by Spectra Pictures Corp., "The Man Called Edison" chronicles inventor Thomas Edison’s involvement in the motion picture industry. It showcases many early Edison films from the Library of Congress' paper prints collection. Although some of the facts in the film would likely be disputed by modern historians, the majority of the story presented in the film is accurate. One of photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s images opens the film (1:10); he experimented with motion pictures in…

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27 minutes

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