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The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures
£9.70
In September 1890, on his way to Washington, DC, to file a patent on the first moving picture camera and projector, French inventor Augustin Le Prince vanished. No trace of him has ever been found. Shortly after Le Prince’s disappearance, Thomas Alva Edison was granted the patent for the same instruments that would revolutionize the motion picture industry. This is an account of Rawlence’s quest to discover what happened to Le Prince and why. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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| Publisher | Atheneum (1 Nov. 1990) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| ISBN-10 | 0689120680 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0689120688 |
by H. Woodroofe
I kept reading about facts about the origins of the cinema which surprised & shocked me & anyone interrested genuinely in movies,this is unmissable.Full of truth about the greed of some surprising people & how the familiar story of the wrong people unjustly gaining credit for something they didn’t do.It would make agreat movie-
by Adrian Smith
Covers the true history of the first moving pictures camera and was use as the bases of a very good channel 4 documentry. A must for film history fans.