Stephen Ylvisaker wrote: > > Thomas Edison, who produced almost a thousand moving pictures before > Hollywood produced their first film. "Thomas Edison's interest in motion pictures began before 1888, however, the visit of Eadweard Muybridge to the inventor's laboratory in West Orange in February of that year certainly stimulated Edison's resolve to invent a motion picture camera. " also from: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm
