The man who made movies : W.K.L. Dickson /
Spehr, Paul C.
Eastleigh : John Libbey,
c2008.
Biography of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, whom many claim was the inventor of cine film, also a director of the American Mutoscope and Biography company, and cinematographer of the Boer War.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-669) and index.
Prologue: Introducing Mr. Dickson; 1: Family Matters; 2: Goerck Street; 3: The Business of Invention;; Electricity, Ore and the Phonograph; 4: Personal Matters; 5: From a Ladies Watch to a Locomotive: The New Laboratory; 6: The Germ of an Idea; 7: The Kineto-Phonograph: The Beginning of a Quest; 8: Trials, Errors, Mergers, Shenanigans and Speculation; Cylinders, Electricity, Phonographs and Iron; 9: Competition! There Were Others?; 10: A Certain Precipitate of Knowledge: The Kinetograph, Spring 1889; 11: Mr. Edison Triumphs in Europe and Dickson has a Busy Summer; 12: 'Good Morning, Mr. Edison': The Strip Kinetograph; 13: Caveat, Film, an Announcement and a Conundrum; the Kineto after Paris; 14: 'We Had a Hell of a Good Time ... ' Ore Milling and Electricity, Dreams and Reality; 15: The Nickel-in-the-Slot Phonograph; 16: 'Come Up Stairs and See the Germ Work' ... Edison 'Out-Edison's; Edison' 1891: Problems, Success and Revisions; 17: Edison's Agent; 18: 'A Method of Taking and Using Photographs' Patenting the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph; 19: ' ... Unaltered to Date': Creating the Foundation of the Modern Motion Picture; 20: The Kinetoscope and Black Maria; 21: Personal Affairs: Pictures, Words, Inventions; 22: Wizard Edison's Wonderful Instrument: The Kinetoscope; 23: A Discontented Winter; 24: Between Careers; Publishing and New Opportunities; 25: The Age of Movement: A New Enterprise; 26: The Playful Specter of the Night: The Biograph on Screen; 27: Home Again; 28: The Pope and the Mutoscopes; 29: News in a Pictorial Way; 30: The Road to Ladysmith; 31: To Pretoria and Beyond: The Heart of the Biographer at Rest; 32: The Hope to See a Bright Future; The W.K.-L. Dickson Laboratory; 33: A Peculiar Memory for Details; 34: Forgotten by History? Evaluating Mr. Dickson.
Biography of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, whom many claim was the inventor of cine film, also a director of the American Mutoscope and Biography company, and cinematographer of the Boer War.
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935.
Cinematography
Kinetoscope.
Inventors