Edison and Dickson
As your text notes, Thomas Edison was the father of American movies. He wrote several caveats describing "an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the ear." His fourth caveat called for a strip of film. In February of 1889 he assigned lab space and employees for inventing motion pictures. He put William K.L. Dickson in charge of the project. Dickson with his associate William Heise produced the first American films. Below you can trace their progress through a number of early films.
Monkeyshines
Dickson Greeting
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Early Edison Films
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (A RECREATION)
Annie Oakley
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