Crews made hundreds of short films in this simple wooden building before Edison built a better-quality studio in New York City and tore the Black Maria down in 1903.
Small and covered in black tarpaper, the studio got its name from the cramped police vans, or “paddywagons,” which were commonly called black Marias at the time. The technology required bright light, so the studio was built on a rotating platform with a window in the ceiling to capture as much sunlight as possible throughout the day. In 1893, Edison’s workers built the world’s first film production studio, the Black Maria, on the grounds of Edison’s laboratories to make movies with the Kinetoscope.
(It wasn’t until several years later, in 1895, that French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière would patent the first movie-projection devices, leading to the first screenings where seated audiences could watch films simultaneously.) Early customers would pay five cents to see 20 to 30 seconds of silent film, one at a time, through these special viewers. Edison also developed the Kinetoscope, a peep-hole device people could use in penny arcades to view these first films. Dickson, to develop the Kinetograph, the first motion picture camera, which used a series of small photos on a cylinder to produce a moving image. In 1891, Edison worked with his employee, William K.L. From the telegraph to the phonograph to the tiny working parts of various machines and gadgets, he influenced and improved how people would communicate and experience the world for years to come. patents in his name, his reach as an innovator touches numerous aspects of modern society. Thomas Edison may be best-known for inventing the light bulb, but with more than a thousand U.S. A 1901 photo of Thomas Edison in his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, which would later become the Thomas Edison National Historical Park.
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