Edendale is a chronological name for a region in Los Angeles, California, northwest of downtown, in what is known today as Echo Park and the eastern edge of Silver Lake. In the beginning decades of the 20th century, in the era of silent film, Edendale was commonly known as the home of most major film studios on the West Coast. Among its many claims, it was home to the Keystone Cops, and the site of many film firsts, including Charlie Chaplin's first film, the first feature-length comedy, and the first pie-in-the-face. The Edendale film studios were mostly concentrated in a four-block stretch of Allesandro Street, between Berkeley Avenue and Duane Street. Allesandro Street was later renamed to Glendale Boulevard (and a smaller nearby street took on the name Allesandro). Edendales hilly streets and nearby lake lent themselves to many silent film gags. The district's heyday as the center of the film industry was in the 1910s. By the 1920s, the studios had moved elsewhere, mostly to Hollywood, which would come to supplant it as the "film capital".

• Motion Picture Studios of California - article, written by G.P. von Harleman, originally appeared in the March 10, 1917, issue of ''The Moving Picture World''
• Film History Before 1920 - from filmsite.org
• biography of Col. William Selig - from Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences / Margaret Herrick Library
• Hollywood Heritage archive - story on establishment of the first studio in LA
• Echo Park Historical Society - a history of Edendale
• Edendale Grill history page - from a local restaurant that commemorates the name and displays memorabilia from Edendale's heyday in its "Tom Mix Bar"
• Keystone Studio - Then & Now - a nice collage of vintage photos juxtaposed with present-day photos of the same sites
• Edendale in the Golden Age of Silent Film - a geocache puzzle that involves finding multiple clues in Edendale's history; the page contains a number of vintage photos