BRET WOOD: IN SEARCH OF CINEMATIC EDISON

The American motion picture industry began with Thomas Edison and his brigade of inventive technicians during the final years of the 19th century. Kino on Video, in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Library of Congress, has assembled 140 films produced by Edison in a four-disc DVD set called “Edison: The Invention of the Movies”. Bret Wood, who produced “Edison: The Invention of the Movies,” spoke with Film Threat on the unique challenges of bringing the harvest of silent Edison films into a single DVD presentation…