A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925Tells the story of the development of the motion picture, from Muybridge's race horse photography and Edison's early Kinetoscope through the golden era of silent films. |
Contents
THE PREHISTORY OF THE SCREEN | xxxvii |
Pictorial efforts of the ancientsLeonardo da VinciAthanasius Kirchers | 11 |
IT MOVES OCTOBER 6 1889 | 65 |
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The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World Ian Christie No preview available - 1994 |