- Publisher: Faber
- Year: 2022
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 410pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x158mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.7kg
- ISBN: 9780571348640
- Product code: 530882
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
Paul Fischer New Hardback Illustrated
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In 1888, before Edison and the Lumière brothers, a Frenchman called Louis Le Prince shot the first motion picture in Leeds. Two years later, he boarded a train in France and was never seen again. Drawing on archives in Leeds, Paris and New York, this investigation explores his extraordinary career, solves the mystery of his disappearance, and follows his widow’s legal battle with Edison.
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A Radio 4 Book of the Week.
'Fascinating . . . filled with lively historical digressions.' New York Times 'Best True Crime of 2022'
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.
'Fascinating . . . filled with lively historical digressions.' New York Times 'Best True Crime of 2022'
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.
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In 1888, before Edison and the Lumière brothers, a Frenchman called Louis Le Prince shot the first motion picture in Leeds. Two years later, he boarded a train in France and was never seen again. Drawing on archives in Leeds, Paris and New York, this investigation explores his extraordinary career, solves the mystery of his disappearance, and follows his widow’s legal battle with Edison.
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