
The Edison “Black Maria”, the first motion picture studio in the world, built to make pictures for the peep show Kinetoscope—the studio revolved to follow the sunlight.

The Edison “Black Maria”, the first motion picture studio in the world, built to make pictures for the peep show Kinetoscope—the studio revolved to follow the sunlight.

It’s back to photographing running horses for Eadweard Muybridge after being acquitted of murdering the man who was cuckolding him. February 1875.

Muybridge. Circa 1884.
This begins a new category (for which I’ll come up with a terrible name later) about the dawn of and precursors to the movies. I’ll be culling the images to be included here from Terry Ramsaye‘s 1926 bone-dry, two-volume tome A Million And One Nights, A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925.