What was the world’s first film studio?

February 4, 2020 by Pamela Landy

The Black Maria, built in 1893 by Thomas Alva Edison, near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, was the world’s first film studio.

Films were shot there for Edison’s peepshow-style kinetoscope viewer.

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