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- Debrie Motion Picture Camera, circa 1920 - This motion picture camera was used at Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratories. Edison's 1888 patent for a device that could do "for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear" produced intense technological experimentation--and the development of the American film industry. Over two short decades, recording and projection technologies standardized, and sophisticated audiences began to demand quality productions.
- circa 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Debrie Motion Picture Camera, circa 1920
This motion picture camera was used at Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratories. Edison's 1888 patent for a device that could do "for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear" produced intense technological experimentation--and the development of the American film industry. Over two short decades, recording and projection technologies standardized, and sophisticated audiences began to demand quality productions.