Edison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison's assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, beginning in 1888.

Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable on the Library's Digital Collections web page.

This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the near future. In addition, histories are given of Edison's involvement with motion pictures an

Includes Genres,Titles, Actors and Actresses, Awards, Characters,Databases, Directorie­s, Directors, Film Archives, Film Festivals, Film Quotes, Film Schools,Theory and Criticism, Movie Trivia, and much more!

Film-related articles include Gene Autry, Lucille Ball, Ingmar Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Fanny Brice, Busby Berkeley, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, MarleneDietrich, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Laurence Olivier, James Stewart,Toshirō Mifune, Spencer Tracy, Johnny We

David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called Disney “the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo.”