Robert Paul and the origins of British cinema /
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 United Kingdom). He also created the first movie ca...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Cinema and modernity.
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Table of 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.