<p>Thomas Edison, with a lot of help from his assistant manager, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, starts to explore the idea of making pictures that move. He'll investigate the idea of linking the moving images to sound by designing a machine that will work with a phonograph, before finally making a peephole machine that shows moving pictures but doesn't have any sound. <br /><br /></p>
Thomas Edison, with a lot of help from his assistant manager, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, starts to explore the idea of making pictures that move. He'll investigate the idea of linking the moving images to sound by designing a machine that will work with a phonograph, before finally making a peephole machine that shows moving pictures but doesn't have any sound.