The inventor and the tycoon
Subtitle: a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures
By: Edward Ball
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780385525756; 9780385535496; 9780767929400
Subjects: Motion pictures; Trials, litigation; Trials (Murder); Businesspeople; Cinematography; Cinematographers; Biography; History
Description: The story of Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of stop-motion photography and moving pictures--who was also a murderer--and his relationship with Leland Stanford, the wealthy railroad baron and founder of Stanford University.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : Floodwaters; title: Preface; title: Part one.; title: The Stanford entertainment; title: The yellow jacket murder; title: God of the sun; title: Harnessing the elephant; title: The photographer; title: Flora Downs; title: Occident; title: Part two.; title: Harry Larkyns; title: The octopus; title: Little Harry; title: King Eadweard; title: Marital rights; title: The grocer; title: The immigrant; title: The trial; title: The speculator; title: Verdicts; title: Part three.; title: The horse lovers; title: Prestidigitator; title: Motion, study; title: Celluloid; title: The flood