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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (Hardcover)
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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (Hardcover)
Series: Cinema and Modernity
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The early years of film were dominated by competition between
inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the
Lumiere brothers . But while these have generally been considered
the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only crucial
figures in its inception. Telling the story of the white-hot years
of filmmaking in the 1890s, Robert Paul and the Origins of British
Cinema seeks to restore Robert Paul, Britain's most important early
innovator in film, to his rightful place. From improving upon
Edison's Kinetoscope to cocreating the first movie camera in
Britain to building England's first film studio and launching the
country's motion-picture industry, Paul played a key part in the
history of cinema worldwide. It's not only Paul's story, however,
that historian Ian Christie tells here. Robert Paul and the Origins
of British Cinema also details the race among inventors to develop
lucrative technologies and the jumbled culture of patent-snatching,
showmanship, and music halls that prevailed in the last decade of
the nineteenth century. Both an in-depth biography and a
magnificent look at early cinema and fin-de-siecle Britain, Robert
Paul and the Origins of British Cinema is a first-rate cultural
history of a fascinating era of global invention, and the
revelation of one of its undervalued contributors.
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