were the founding concepts for motion picture cameras and projectors. In 1888 in New York City, the great inventor Thomas Edison and his British assistant William Dickson worried that others were ...

Thomas Edison ... them from their businesses. Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph and several other companies finally decided to join efforts, and in 1908 the Motion Picture Patents Company was formed.

Special effects have always been a major part of cinema history, and the very first instance of their use came in 1895, in a ...

Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to the modern motion picture camera.