Paul Fischer

Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture in 1890. He applied for, and was granted, patents in four countries. And then, a month before unveiling it to the world...he disappeared. And was never seen again. Three years later, Le Princes invention was finally made public - by a man who claimed to have invented it himself. The mans name was Thomas Edison. This book is the story of the birth of motion pictures, restoring the father of the invention to his rightful place in history.

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

Antes de convertirse en el dictador más famoso delmundo, Kim Jong-Il dirigía el Ministerio de Propaganda ylos estudios de cine de Corea del Norte. Era el cerebro trascada película, el productor y el guionista. Pero el solo no erasuficiente, por lo que ordeno el secuestro de la actriz masfamosa de Corea del Sur, y su exmarido, director de cine.· Ella vivio en una jaula dorada, de la que solo se le permitiasalir para los saraos oficiales. El tuvo que pasar por lareeducacion en campos de concentracion hasta que cedio.Los dos acabaron participando en siete peliculas, a lasordenes del Querido Lider.· Un thriller de no ficcion lleno de tension, pasiones ypolitica, que nos permite adentrarnos en los secretos de estepais hermeticamente sellado, que nos fascina.

Antes de convertirse en el dictador más famoso del mundo, Kim Jong-Il dirigía el Ministerio de Propaganda y los estudios de cine de Corea del Norte. Era el cerebro tras cada película, el productor y el guionista. Pero el solo no era suficiente, por lo que ordeno el secuestro de la actriz mas famosa de Corea del Sur, y su exmarido, director de cine. Ella vivio en una jaula dorada, de la que solo se le permitia salir para los saraos oficiales. El tuvo que pasar por la "reeducacion" en campos de concentracion hasta que cedio. Los dos acabaron participando en siete peliculas, a las ordenes del Querido Lider. Un thriller de no ficcion lleno de tension, pasiones y politica, que nos permite adentrarnos en los secretos de este pais hermeticamente sellado, que nos fascina.

Coppola - The Godfather Spielberg - JawsLucas - Star WarsThis is story of the most successful group of friends in the history of cinema and how they reshaped it forever.The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed The Godfather, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with Jaws - whose record Lucas broke with Star Wars, which Spielberg surpassed again with E.T. By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. The Last Kings of Hollywood is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures - intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining.