Robert Paul and the origins of British cinema / Ian Christie.
| Author/creator | Christie, Ian, 1945- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
| Description | x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cinema and modernity Cinema and modernity. ^A612618 |
| Contents | Getting into the picture business -- Flashback: an engineer's education -- "Adding interest to wonder": the first year in film -- Time travel: film, the past, and posterity -- "True till death!" family business -- Home and away: networks of nonfiction -- Distant wars: South Africa and beyond -- Telling tales: studio-based production -- "Daddy Paul": the cultural economy of cinema in Britain -- "My original business": Paul's technical and scientific work -- Paul and early film history -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "Time Traveler, tells the story of the white-hot years of filmmaking in the 1890s and seeks nothing less than to restore Robert Paul to his rightful place in that scene. Paul improved upon the Kinetoscope (which Edison had neglected to patent in the UK). He also created the first movie camera in the UK and went on to unveil a highly effective projector called the Theatograph in 1896. Paul patented numerous devices, including a wireless telegraphy kit and submarine navigation devices that were instrumental in WWI. This book covers Paul's life, the race among inventors (including Edison, the Lumieres, and many more) to develop lucrative technologies, the jumbled culture of patent-snatching, tinkering, showmanship, music halls and movie palaces that then prevailed"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780226610115 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019032253 |
| ISBN | 9780226105628 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0226105628 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226105635 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0226105636 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |