Filming/Photography

FILMING/PHOTOGRAPHY

LOCATION LIST

The following areas are open to public visitation and filming activity. Please specify on your APPLICATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY/FILMING PERMIT which locations you would like to use.

LABORATORY COMPLEX – MAIN STREET

Exteriors – original red brick structures built in 1887

Building 1 - Laboratory Visitor Center – Information Desk, Museum Store, Video Theatre

Building 2 - Chemistry Lab - experiments on the electric storage battery, phonograph records and rubber were conducted here. Historically furnished room.

Building 3 - Pattern Shop – wood patterns and models were made here. Historically furnished room.

Building 5 - 1st floor:

Library - original library and office of Thomas Edison. Historically furnished room.

Stockroom - storage area for supplies and materials used in Edison's experiments. Historically furnished room.

Heavy Machine Shop - 1887 belt driven experimental machine shop where skilled machinists made and repaired machine parts. Historically furnished room.

Building 5 - 2nd floor:

Precision Machine Shop – experimental machinists made prototypes and models here. Historically furnished room.

Drafting Room – rough sketches were turned into large-scale measured drawings here. Historically furnished room.

Room 12 – Thomas Edison’s private experimental room. Historically furnished room.

Building 5 - 3rd floor:

Music Room – served as music recording studio and audition space. Historically furnished room.

Photo Department – darkroom and office for product promotion and publicity photographs. Historically furnished room.

Phonograph Gallery – exhibit featuring the extensive phonograph collection at the park.

Artifacts from the Collection – exhibit and visual storage for artifacts in the museum collection.

Black Maria - replica of Edison's first motion picture studio. Interior unfurnished.

Building 11 - multipurpose room

GLENMONT ESTATE – LLEWELLYN PARK

Exteriors – 15 acre residential estate in historic Llewellyn Park includes house, greenhouse and potting shed, garage, barn, and gravesites of Thomas and Mina Miller Edison (please specify exact location/building).

House - filming is permitted in the main living areas on the first and second floors of the house. Original furnishings remain from the Edison family.

Potting Shed - Information Desk, Garden Shop

Greenhouse – working greenhouse filled with plants and flowers from the Edison era.

Garage – built in 1908, has room for six cars and is equipped with a turntable, gasoline pump, battery charger and a hose for washing cars. Houses a 1911 Detroit Electric, a 1914 Detroit Electric, a 1922 Ford Model T, a 1908 Locomobile and a 1936 Brewster belonging to Charles Edison.