The missing reel : the untold story of the lost inventor of moving pictures /

In September 1890, on his way to Washington, DC, to file a patent on the first moving picture camera and projector, French inventor Augustin Le Prince vanished. No trace of him has ever been found. Shortly after Le Prince's disappearance, Thomas Alva Edison was granted the patent for the same i...

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Main Author: Rawlence, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1990.
Subjects:
Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin, > 1842-1890.
Inventors > Great Britain > Biography.
Cinematography > History.
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