These were made using light-sensitive paper of the same width and length as the film itself, and developed as though a still photograph. Both the Edison Company and the Biograph Company submitted entire motion pictures as paper prints, and it is in this form that most of them survive.
The early films were produced using light-sensitive paper identical to the film's dimensions, then treated like a stationary image. The Edison Company and the Biograph Company submitted complete motion pictures as paper prints, and it is through this method that many of them have survived.