Showing our children that their past is a prelude to their future.
By David Bruce Smith
According to History.com 'Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States for several years using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, the films could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box, not projected to a large audience. Brothers Grey and Otway Latham, the founders of a company that produced and exhibited films of prize fights using the Kinetoscope, called on their father, Woodville, and W.K.L. Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Laboratory, to help them develop a device that would project life-sized images onto a screen in order to attract larger audiences,' says History.com.The Grateful American Book Prize recommends Charles Musser's The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907.