📗 Libro en inglés THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES

This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid has fascinated cinéastes for years Kathryn Hughes Sunday Times Illuminating and thrilling The Spectator Absorbing forensic and jaw dropping Total Film In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world s first motion picture in Leeds England In 1890 weeks before the planned public unveiling of his camera and projector Le Prince boarded a train in France and disappeared without a trace His body was never found In 1891 Thomas Edison inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph announced that he had developed a motion picture camera Le Prince s family convinced that Edison had stolen Louis s work proceeded to sue the most famous inventor in the world The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures excavates one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Victorian age and offers a revelatory rewriting of the birth of modern pictures