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Birt Acres was the first commercial filmmaker in Britain and Germany but has been ill-served by film history. Of mysterious origins, this book tells his full story for the first time: tracing his American beginnings, his fame in the field of British photography, his embrace of the moving image and his later, overlooked years.
About the author
Barry Anthony has written extensively about social history, particularly entertainment. His books include the ground-breaking A Victorian Film Enterprise and The Kinetoscope: A British History (both with Richard Brown) and Chaplin's Music Hall. He has also written for periodicals such as Film History, Sight and Sound and The Stage. Peter Domankiewicz has worked professionally in film and television for decades as a screenwriter, director and producer. He has written about early film history for The Guardian and Sight and Sound, also contributing to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Who's Who of Victorian Cinema and several academic journals. Deac Rossell is a historian of early cinema, magic lantern culture and chronophotography. His books include Living Pictures: The Origins of the Movies, Faszination der Bewegung: Ottomar Anschutz zwischen Photographie und Kino, Laterna Magica - Magic Lantern, and Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896. He also writes for journals, encyclopaedias and exhibition catalogues.
