1902 · N.p.
by [Howard Brothers] [Thomas Edison]
N.p.: Edison Manufacturing, 1902. Vintage broadside advertising a motion picture show held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Caughdenoy, New York, circa 1902.
Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a single-user, peep hole film viewer) in 1897. The latter would eventually give way to projection devices that would allow larger audiences to view films. The Edison Manufacturing Co. (later known as Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) not only built the apparatus for filming and projecting motion pictures, but also produced films for public consumption. Most early examples were "actuality films," short motion pictures showing famous people, news events, disasters, new modes of travel and technology, and expositions, as the broadside on offer attests. As audience enthusiasm for "actualities" faded, the company's production emphasis shifted to fictional films, mostly comedies and dramas, by 1903.
5.5 x 14.5 inches. Very Good plus, with faint foxing at the bottom right corner. (Inventory #: 158610)
Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a single-user, peep hole film viewer) in 1897. The latter would eventually give way to projection devices that would allow larger audiences to view films. The Edison Manufacturing Co. (later known as Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) not only built the apparatus for filming and projecting motion pictures, but also produced films for public consumption. Most early examples were "actuality films," short motion pictures showing famous people, news events, disasters, new modes of travel and technology, and expositions, as the broadside on offer attests. As audience enthusiasm for "actualities" faded, the company's production emphasis shifted to fictional films, mostly comedies and dramas, by 1903.
5.5 x 14.5 inches. Very Good plus, with faint foxing at the bottom right corner. (Inventory #: 158610)