Bibliograph

The man who invented motion pictures, a true life murder mystery from the birth of the movies, Paul Fischer

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The man who invented motion pictures, a true life murder mystery from the birth of the movies, Paul Fischer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographic references and index

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illustrationsplatesportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The man who invented motion pictures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Paul Fischer

Sub title

a true life murder mystery from the birth of the movies

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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