The Man Who Made Movies

W.K.L. Dickson

Paul Spehr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

650 Seiten

2008
John Libbey Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-86196-695-0 (ISBN)

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Covers the early history of the film industry from the perspective of W K L Dickson's career. This book also offers a window on Thomas Edison from a different perspective.

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.

Paul Spehr is former Assistant Chief of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.11.2008
Zusatzinfo	60 b&w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1320 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	0-86196-695-3 / 0861966953
ISBN-13	978-0-86196-695-0 / 9780861966950
Zustand	Neuware