Edison Studios
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Edison Studios was an American motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor Thomas Edison. Following the closure of Edison's Black Maria studios in West Orange, New Jersey, he had new facilities built on Decatur Avenue & Oliver Place in The Bronx, New York. The studio made close to twelve hundred films for the Edison Company and the Edison Manufacturing Company until its closing in 1918.
Some of the studio's notable productions include the first Frankenstein film in 1910 and the first ever serial made in 1912 titled What Happened to Mary?. The studio also produced a number of Raoul Barré cartoon films in 1915.
