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Number of Pages: 650. Weight: 2.9 lbs. Publication Date: 2008-11-17.

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W.K.L. Dickson was Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of the experimentation that led to the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph?the first commercially successful moving image machines. In 1891?1892, he established what we know today as the 35mm format. Dickson also designed the Black Maria film studio and facilities to develop and print film, and supervised production of more than 100 films for Edison. After leaving Edison, he became a founding member of the American Mutoscope Company, which later became the American Mutoscope & Biograph, then Biograph. In 1897, he went to England to set up the European branch of the company. Over the course of his career, Dickson made between 500 and 700 films, which are studied today by scholars of the early cinema. This well-illustrated book offers a window onto early film history from the perspective of Dickson's own oeuvre.

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Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0861966953
ISBN-13
9780861966950
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Book Title
Man Who Made Movies : W. K. L. Dickson
Author
Paul Spehr
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
650 Pages

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9 in
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0.6 in
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6 in
Item Weight
46.7 Oz

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"... recounts the contributions of Thomas Edison's assistant in charge ofexperimentation whose work led to the development of the first commercially successful moving imagemachines.... a valuable and comprehensive history." -Bruce A. Austin, COMMUNICATION BOOKNOTESQTLY, Vol. 40.3 July-Sept. 2009, ". . . recounts the contributions of Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of experimentation whose work led to the development of the first commercially successful moving image machines. . . . a valuable and comprehensive history.Vol. 40.3 July-Sept. 2009"--Bruce A. Austin, COMMUNICATION BOOKNOTES QTLY, ... recounts the contributions of Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of experimentation whose work led to the development of the first commercially successful moving image machines.... a valuable and comprehensive history., "... recounts the contributions of Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of experimentation whose work led to the development of the first commercially successful moving image machines.... a valuable and comprehensive history." -- Bruce A. Austin, COMMUNICATION BOOKNOTES QTLY, Vol. 40.3 July-Sept. 2009, . . . recounts the contributions of Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of experimentation whose work led to the development of the first commercially successful moving image machines. . . . a valuable and comprehensive history.Vol. 40.3 July-Sept. 2009, "... recounts the contributions of Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of experimentation whose work led to the development of the first commercially successful moving image machines.... a valuable and comprehensive history." -Bruce A. Austin, COMMUNICATION BOOKNOTES QTLY, Vol. 40.3 July-Sept. 2009
Table of Content
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 Begninning of a Quest 8. Trials, Errors, Mergers, Shenanigans, and Speculation 9. Competition! 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 Kintograph 13. Caveat, Film, an announcement and a Conundrom: 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": 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 fo 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 teh 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
Copyright Date
2008
Dewey Decimal
778.53092
Dewey Edition
22

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