Edison Motion Pictures: Hockey Match on the Ice | 00:36 Min | 1898 | USA
Director: Thomas Edison
"I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion ...." --Thomas A. Edison, 1888. These shorts are examples of the most common form of early filmmaking called “actualities,” which are short non-fiction films. After the initial ten year heyday of actualities, Edison and his contemporaries moved on to drama and comedy.
