The Inventor and the Tycoon
[A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures]
[Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2013.
Format: Eaudiobook
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Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (15 hr., 20 min.)) : digital.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.
Subjects:
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Trials (Murder) -- California -- San Francisco.
Cinematography -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Cinematographers -- California -- Biography.
Businesspeople -- California -- Biography.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Trials (Murder) -- California -- San Francisco.
Cinematography -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Cinematographers -- California -- Biography.
Businesspeople -- California -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307876652 (electronic audio bk.)
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Eaudiobook
Subtitle from publisher.
Electronic resource.
Read by John H. Mayer.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic resource.
Read by John H. Mayer.
Description based on print version record.