How Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope paved the way for the movie industry
On this date 130 years ago, the movie industry was born when inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated
his Kinetoscope – a device in which you’d drop a dime in order to watch a brief film clip. There was
no hot buttered popcorn just yet. There were no trailers or post-credit scenes. And the “movie” was
only 3 seconds long. But Edison’s work – and that of other inventors in the U.S. and Europe – would
pave the way for James Bond, Pixar, Marvel Avengers and Disney Princesses.