Welcome to America's First Movie Studio
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2012-01-12
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In 1893, the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the cinematographic Theater, was completed on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope. Construction began in December 1892 and was completed the following year at a cost of $637.67. In early May 1893 at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Edison conducted the world's first public demonstration of films shot using the Kinetograph in the Black Maria, with a Kinetoscope viewer. The exhibited film showed three people pretending to be blacksmiths.
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Movie Studio, The First Movie Studio, The Black Maria, Thomas Edison's Factory. Edison Factory, The Factory, Edison Research Facility, Edison's Manufacturing Facility, Thomas Edison, Edison, National Historical Park, NPS, National Park Service, National Historical Site, Industrial Revolution, U.S. Historic district, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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