Edison's Black Maria
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The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's film production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It was the world's first film studio.
Edison's Black Maria Studio
A drawing of the exterior from 1894
Annabelle Whitford doing her "butterfly dance", recorded at the Edison's Black Maria studio
Annabelle Moore
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Annabelle Moore, also known as Peerless Annabelle, was an American dancer and actress who appeared in numerous early silent films. She was the original Gibson Girl in the 1907 Ziegfeld Follies.
Edison's Black Maria
…films shot using the Kinetograph in the Black Maria, with a Kinetoscope viewer. The exhibited film showed three people pretending to be blacksmiths. Annabelle Whitford doing her "butterfly dance", recorded at the Edison's Black Maria studio The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright…
Whitford in 1895