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Podcast: Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast
Episode: Episode 16: The Poisonous Partnership
Description: Thomas Armat and Charles Jenkins, two men from the Washington DC area, develop America's first movie projector. This machine will be very important in film history, as its the first projection machine that Thomas Edison would market, but it is the damaged relationship between the two men that makes this an intriguing story.