Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Christie, Ian (1945-....)
Titre(s) : Robert Paul and the origins of British cinema [Texte imprimé] / Ian Christie
Publication : Chicago, [Illinois] : The university of Chicago press, 2019
Description matérielle : x, 342 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Cinema and modernity
Lien à la collection : Cinema and modernity
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Paul, Robert William (1869-1943)
Réalisateurs de cinéma -- Grande-Bretagne
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 92 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226105628. - ISBN 0226105628. - ISBN 9780226105635. - ISBN 0226105636. -
ISBN 9780226610115 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465297042
Notice n° :
FRBNF46529704
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
