Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Ian Christie is Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design and Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker. Klappentext "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"--

Product details

• Authors: Ian Christie, Christie Ian
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780226105635
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10563-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cinema and Modernity; Cinema and Modernity (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Travel > Travel guides; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of engineering and technology, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, History of engineering & technology, Biography: arts and entertainment, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism