From peep show to palace
Subtitle: the birth of American film
By: David Robinson ; foreword by Martin Scorsese.
Publisher: Columbia University Press in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Motion picture industry -- United States -- History
Description: From Peep Show to Palace recounts the enchanting early years of film, beginning with the primitive motion of the "magic lantern" in the fifteenth century and continuing, most significantly, with the explosion of research from 1893 to 1913, when the modern motion picture was born. Respected film critic David Robinson offers this vivid account of the haphazard process, "like the assembly of the pieces of a puzzle," which was the birth of American film.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-180) and index.