From peep show to palace: the birth of American film

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...

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Main Author: Robinson, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 1996
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:XIV, 213, [16] S. zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:0231103387

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