Although film production was no
longer carried out West Orange, the judgement Edison
movies was centered there film committee which included
top management and experimenters from the laboratory. The work combining sight and sound was
carried from the nineteenth the twentieth century,
experiments beginning new kinetophone 1899 and
. produced a
varied selection film subjects and was committed high
quality these Edison films.
The benefits the film monopoly did not end the R&D on
motion pictures carried out Edison's laboratory for work
continued improving existing equipment and developing new
technology. Thousands dollars were expended experiments
to produce revolutionary new technologies such color films
and talking pictures. They
had the power reject unsatisfactory films refer them back
to the studios remade.IX-29
films and the entrepreneur Hutchison saw potential films
for specific educational audiences. joined with another
experimenter the laboratory form company devoted to
making sound movies about scouting, expecting large and
profitable market the Boy Scouts America. The film
studios established outside the laboratory still took their
orders from West Orange.
In the first years the MPPC, TAE Inc. This
group assessed all new movies and passed them for release. Movies were judged their
content— acting and plot— and the technical concerns of
lighting, photography, and the condition the print
