Did you know that one of Fort Myers most famous residents is indirectly responsible for Hollywood becoming a movie mecca?

One spring day in 1894, Thomas Edison unveiled a remarkable moving picture machine called the Kinetoscope in a Manhattan parlor. Some 500 people lined up to drop quarters into what was the Oculus Rift ...

With so much history behind the sky city of Columbia, it would be impossible for the game to pack everything into the main story, which is why the BioShock Infinite telescopes and kinetoscopes are ...

Edison's kinetoscope was a novelty not to be missed. Premiering Jan. 27 on PBS. In the 1890s, Thomas Edison worked with his assistant and part-time photographer, William Dickson to create a motion ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera. A certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes," the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.

""An instrument which should do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear..."" is what Thomas Edison had in mind when he created the kinetograph (a camera used for photographing motion pictures ...

Though most famous for his Promethean invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope 112 years ago today, igniting the medium that became the motion picture industry. While the ...

The Kinetoscope, an early motion picture exhibition device, was first publicly displayed on May 20, 1891. Considered by some to be the first movie projector, the Kinetoscope was designed for films to ...

As we gear up for the summer blockbuster season, some movie lovers might be surprised to learn that a reproduction of the world’s first film studio is part of the U.S. National Park System. A: ...

When Joy French was finishing her master’s degree in 2006 and she wanted to film some of her choreography, she had to go rent a camera. Now, the camera on her phone is higher quality than the one she ...

The First Lady's Aerodome - "A City Mourns..." Just after you get off the gondola, you'll battle some enemies in a lobby area. Centered under the stairs is another Kinetoscope. Viewfinder walkthrough ...