The man who invented motion pictures : a true tale of obsession, murder, and the movies / Paul Fischer.
Publication details: London, UK : Faber & Faber, 2022.Description: xv, 392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780571348640 (hbk.)
- 0571348645 (hbk.)
- 791.4309428109034 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 791.43 FIS | Available | 064397 |
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Part one: The crime (1890-1891) -- Part two: Europe (1866-1880) -- Part three: To America and back (1882-1887) -- Part four: The first film (1887-1888) -- Part five: Motion pictures (1889-1901) -- Coda: The drowned man (October 1890)
In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world?s first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and projector - a year before Thomas Edison announced that the had invented a motion picture camera - Le Prince stepped on a train in France - and disappeared without a trace. He was never seen or heard from again. No body was ever found. Le Prince?s family were convinced Edison had stolen Louis?s work, and so they sued the most famous inventor in the world. By the time the lawsuit was over, Le Prince?s own son was dead under suspicious circumstances - and modern Hollywood was being born. Paul Fischer?s new book excavates one of the Victorian age?s great unsolved mysteries, and in the process offers a revelatory rewriting of the birth of motion pictures.
