{"product_id":"the-man-who-invented-motion-pictures-9780571348640","title":"The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Radio 4 Book of the Week.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Fascinating . . . filled with lively historical digressions.'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e''Best True Crime of 2022''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and projector - a year before Thomas Edison announced that the had invented a motion picture camera - Le Prince stepped on a train in France  and disappeared without a trace. He was never seen or heard from again. No body was ever found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLe Prince's family were convinced Edison had stolen Louis's work, and so they sued the most famous inventor in the world. By the time the lawsuit was over, Le Prince's own son was dead under suspicious circumstances  and modern Hollywood was being born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Fischer's new book excavates one of the Victorian age's great unsolved mysteries, and in the process offers a revelatory rewriting of the birth of motion pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865122681175,"sku":"9780571348640","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-man-who-invented-motion-pictures-9780571348640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}