Edison Studios
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| Industry | Motion pictures |
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| Founded | 1894 |
| Founder | Thomas A. Edison |
| Defunct | 1918 |
| Headquarters | United States |
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Number of locations
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West Orange, New Jersey |
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Area served
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United States, Europe |
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Key people
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William Gilmore (Vice President and General Manager) |
| Products | Silent films |
| Parent |
Edison Manufacturing Company (1894-1911) Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911-1918) |
West Orange, New Jersey
(1894-1901)
Manhattan, New York City, New York (1901-1907)
William Gilmore (Vice President and General Manager)
William Kennedy Dickson (Producer)
William Heise (Producer)
James H. White (Producer)
William Markgraf (Producer)
Alex T. Moore (Producer)
Horace G. Plimpton (Producer)
Edwin S. Porter (Director)
John Hancock Collins (Director)
J. Searle Dawley (Director)
Edison Studios was an American film production organization, owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison. The studio made close to 1,200 films, as part of the Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and then the Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918), until the studio's closing in 1918. Of that number, 54 were feature length, and the remainder were shorts.
The first production facility was Edison's Black Maria studio, in West Orange, New Jersey, built in the winter of 1892–93. The second facility, a glass-enclosed rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan's entertainment district, opened in 1901. In 1907, Edison had new facilities built, on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place, in the Bronx.
Thomas Edison himself played no direct part in the making of his studios' films, beyond being the owner and appointing William Gilmore as vice-president and general manager. Edison's assistant William Kennedy Dickson, who supervised the development of Edison's motion picture system, produced the first Edison films intended for public exhibition, 1893–95. After Dickson's departure for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1895, he was replaced as director of production by cameraman William Heise, then from 1896-1903, by James H. White. When White left to supervise Edison's European interests in 1903, he was replaced by William Markgraf (1903–1904), then Alex T. Moore (1904–1909), and Horace G. Plimpton (1909–1915).
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