• Pennsylvanian Edward Muybridge conducted studies of time-motion in the 19th century that led to the invention of motion pictures.
• Philadelphian Coleman Sellers invented the flip card movie, also called the "paddle wheel."
• The first Nickelodeon theater opened in Pittsburgh showing The Great Train Robbery, a 14 minute Western, in 1905.
• KDKA in Pittsburgh gave America its first licensed radio broadcast. It was also the nation's first commercial radio station.
• KYW in Philadelphia was the nation's first experimental television station.
• Pittsburgh's WQED was the first public broadcasting station in America.
• Garret Brown from Philadelphia is the inventor of the Steadicam® and Skycam® systems.
• Pennsylvania boasts 2.1 million acres of state forest land, and, no matter where you are, a state park is never more than 25 miles away.
• A 120,000-mile highway system connects the state. We have 142 public-use airports, 6 of them international.

Garrett Brown
A native of Philadelphia, Garrett Brown is best known for inventing the Steadicam®, a camera that eliminates the risk of shakiness in pictures taken by hand-held cameras. Brown first used the Steadicam in the shooting of Rocky, and he won both an Oscar and an Emmy for his technical contributions to the film industry.

Brown holds 50 patents worldwide for camera devices, including: Steadicam JR®, Skycam®, Mobycam®, GoCam® and Divecam®. His inventions are commonly used in the sports world. Mobycam is used the record the performances of Olympic swimmers, and Skycam flies on wires over sporting events such as NFL football games. These inventions have given viewers at home new perspectives from above, under and inside the action.

Brown's invention of the Steadicam required camera operators with new skills to be included on film crews. Today, there are a few hundred members of Steadicam Operators Association, Inc. Since bringing his invention to film, Brown has been the Steadicam operator for nearly 200 movies, including The Shining, Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Philadelphia.

Edward Muybridge
Edward Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English landscape photographer who is best known for his studies of movement. The University of Pennsylvania commissioned Muybridge to complete a study of animal and human locomotion, which currently ranks among the most comprehensive studies of the topic. From 1884 to 1885, Muybridge took over 20,000 photographs of people and animals in every type of movement possible. The photographs are documented in his report, "Animal Locomotion" to which scientists and artists refer to this day.

Muybridge is referred to as the Father of Motion Pictures. He invented the "zoopraxiscope," a device that projected a series of still pictures in a manner to suggest movement. Thomas Edison, after seeing the device, was inspired to develop true motion pictures.