New Jersey is one of the birthplaces of motion pictures. At his workshop in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison assigned employee W. K. L. Dickson with the job of developing “an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear.” The results were the Kinetograph and Kinetoscope, early steps in film history.
The present-day Garden State remembers its history and has continued to invest in its film infrastructure, creating a production community well worth any producer’s time.
