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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 Manu
Edison Motion Picture Studio, in the Bronx, New York City, c. 1907–1918
Several films in production at Edison's Bronx studio, c. 1912. Seated in the foreground, with his legs crossed, is Charles Brabin; seated to the rear, with the card "26" under his arm, is Harold M. Shaw.
Horace G. Plimpton, an Edison Studios film producer 1909–1915
Edison Studios produced the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1910).
The Motion Picture Patents Company, founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major American film companies and local f
Edison Studios
…the early 1900s, rapidly changed the market. By 1904, 85% of Edison's sales were from story films. In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers. The "Edison Trust", as it was nicknamed, was made up of Edison, Biograph, Essanay…
Thomas Edison with the licensees of the Motion Picture Patents Company (December 20, 1909)
Nestor Studio, Hollywood's first movie studio, 1912