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Despite the advances in photography and motion analysis, the first actual films began with Thomas Edison, renowned for inventing the electric light bulb. Edison aimed to refine existing motion picture techniques and assigned his team to develop a device capable of capturing moving images.
The result was the Kinetoscope, created by worker William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, which enabled individuals to view short sequences of film through a peephole. This early film projector, along with Edison’s production studio called the Black Maria, signaled the start of commercial filmmaking.