The Inventor and the Tycoon : : a Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
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Recounts the partnership between stop-motion photography inventor Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon and California governor Leland Stanford, whose obsession with studying running horses helped launch the age of visual media.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xiv, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385525756
0385525753
SUBJECTS
Muybridge, Eadweard, -- 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard, -- 1830-1904 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Stanford, Leland, -- 1824-1893.
Trials (Murder) -- San Francisco.
Cinematography -- History.
Motion pictures -- History.
Cinematographers -- California -- Biography.
Businesspeople -- California -- Biography.