Early Arizona Showmen and Photographers 1871 - 1899
Might the Father of Motion Pictures have taken the first photograph of the Pima County Courthouse in Tucson?
Muybridge Mystery Photograph of Arizona Camp Grant Massacre Trial -1871
Two early Magic Lantern Shows, one of which used limelight.
Reverend George H. Adams and Professor George D. Clark's Magic Lantern Shows - 1880-81
At the same time Edison was inventing the Phonograph in New Jersey, Lew Wallace was writing Ben Hur in New Mexico and talking to Billy the Kid, but it didn't take long for new technology to come West. Edison's Phonograph visits Arizona Territory - 1880
C.L. "Valley" White was a telegraph messenger boy in Globe, AZ in 1880 and returned to Arizona in 1897 to show the Apache Indians movies for the first time. Arizona's 1st Movie Show - 1897-98
27 Academy Award winning films have been shot in Arizona, but who was first? Arizona's 1st Movie Star ~ Burton Holmes and "Rattlesnake Jack" ~ 1898-99