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Robert Paul and the origins of British cinema

Title
Robert Paul and the origins of British cinema / Ian Christie.
Author
Christie, Ian, 1945-
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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Description
x, 342 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Cinema and modernity
Uniform Title
Cinema and modernity.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Appendix A: "A novel form of exhibition or entertainment, means for presenting the same": Paul's "time machine" patent application, 1895 -- Appendix B: Flotation advertisement, 1897 -- Robert Paul Productions 1895-1909.
Call Number
MWES (Paul, R.) 20-2613
ISBN
  • 9780226105628
  • 0226105628
  • 9780226105635
  • 0226105636
  • 9780226610115 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2019032253
  • 40029734381
OCLC
1089896806
Author
Christie, Ian, 1945- author.
Title
Robert Paul and the origins of British cinema / Ian Christie.
Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cinema and modernity
Cinema and modernity.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9780226610115
Other Standard Identifier
40029734381
Research Call Number
MWES (Paul, R.) 20-2613
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