Which early film inventor developed motion picture technology?

• A. Thomas Edison
• B. Etienne-Jules Marey
• C. Edweard Muybridge
• D. Leland Stanford

Answer: (A)

Thomas Edison built the practical system that made moving pictures possible: the Kinetograph camera to capture scenes and the Kinetoscope for viewing them. This pairing created the first widely used motion picture technology and helped launch the early film industry. Marey and Muybridge did important pioneering work on recording motion (sequential photography and early projection), but their innovations didn’t gift the world a complete, commercially deployed motion-picture system. Leland Stanford funded Muybridge, but he wasn’t an inventor of the technology itself. So Edison is the best answer because he directly developed the foundational motion picture technology.