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Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and maintained by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed June 15–18, 2006.

Thomas Edison's film and sound ventures shaped American experience of cultural and technological change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inventing Entertainment provides ample primary materials on listening and spectatorship in that era. The 341 Edison films date from 1891, when Edison began his camera tests, to 1918, when his film production company folded. Although Edison began recording sound in 1877, the collection presents only eighty-one disc recordings made from 1913 to 1922. A few accompanying materials include advertisements, posters, and original magazine articles. Visitors can search the collection or browse by genre and chronology.

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