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
Thomas Edison with the licensees of the Motion Picture Patents Company (December 20, 1909)
Several films in production c. 1907
Nestor Studio, Hollywood's first movie studio, 1912
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
Horace G. Plimpton, an Edison Studios film producer 1909–1915
Edison Studios produced the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1910).