Edison Studios was an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor
Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb...
. The studio made close to 1,200 films as the
Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918) until the studio's closing in
1918The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband....
. Of that number, 54 were
feature-lengthIn the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening...
, the remainder were short films.
Its first production facility,
Edison's Black MariaThe Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It is widely referred to as America's First Movie Studio.- History :...
studios in
West Orange, New JerseyWest Orange is a township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 44,943...
, was built in the winter of 1892–93.
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Edison Studios was an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor
Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb...
. The studio made close to 1,200 films as the
Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918) until the studio's closing in
1918The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband....
. Of that number, 54 were
feature-lengthIn the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening...
, the remainder were short films.
Its first production facility,
Edison's Black MariaThe Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It is widely referred to as America's First Movie Studio.- History :...
studios in
West Orange, New JerseyWest Orange is a township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 44,943...
, was built in the winter of 1892–93. The second facility, a glass-enclosed rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in
ManhattanManhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...
's entertainment district, opened in 1901. In 1907, Edison had new facilities built on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place in
The Bronx