The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures by Paul Fischer

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures by Paul Fischer

Named One of the Best True Crime Books of the Year by The New York Times

A "spellbinding, thriller-like" (Shelf Awareness) history of early cinema and the invention of motion pictures centered on the mysterious, forgotten man behind it--detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy.

The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on the front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human experience--from the most mundane to the most momentous--would need to be lost to history.

In 1890, Le Prince was granted patents in four countries ahead of other inventors who were rushing to accomplish the same task. But just weeks before unveiling his invention to the world, he mysteriously disappeared and was never seen or heard from again. Three and half years later, Thomas Edison, Le Prince's rival, made the device public, claiming to have invented it himself. And the man who had dedicated his life to preserving memories was himself lost to history--until now.

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures pulls back the curtain and presents a "passionate, detailed defense of Louis Le Prince...unfurled with all the cliffhangers and red herrings of a scripted melodrama" (The New York Times Book Review). This "fascinating, informative, skillfully articulated narrative" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) presents the never-before-told history of film invention and sheds light on the unsolved mystery of Le Prince's disappearance.

Dr. Paul Fischer is an economist, who studied international business, economics, international relations, and law at the universities of Munich LMU, Paris Sorbonne, and Maastricht. He holds a Ph.D. from the Moscow Finance Academy and a D.Litt. (Postdoc) from the Moscow Higher School of Economics. His earlier book Foreign Direct Investment in Russia: A Strategy for Industrial Recovery was published in English (Macmillan, 2000) and Russian (1999). The sequel, Increasing FDI into Russia: Five Steps towards Success (2004), was published in Russian. The concepts in these books were used by authorities in Russia and other emerging markets for their FDI policies. Dr. Fischer was senior advisor with the UN, the European Commission, and the German government in Russia and China. He founded the advisory firm EMAS (www.emas-eurasia.com) in Munich; it has offices in Dalian, Pune, and Moscow. A polyglot, he speaks German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Russian fluently, and can communicate in Chinese.

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ISBN 13	9781982114848
ISBN 10	1982114843
Title	The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
Author	Paul Fischer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2023-04-18
Number of pages	416
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