In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio. He was testing a new device called the kinetograph, an electrically powered camera capable of capturing motion.

In 1894, the famous gunslinger, Annie Oakley came to Edison’s Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Edison wanted to see if his kinetograph — a primitive version of a movie ...

Motion picture technology flourished at West Orange. Edison developed early cameras and projectors there. The complex also held the world’s first film studio, the Black Maria. The rotating studio was ...