Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prelude 1
5. Chapter 1. Getting into the Picture Business 7
6. Chapter 2. Flashback: An Engineer’s Education 35
7. Chapter 3. “Adding Interest to Wonder”: The First Year in Film 63
8. Chapter 4. Time Travel: Film, the Past, and Posterity 83
9. Chapter 5. “True Till Death!” Family Business 105
10. Chapter 6. Home and Away: Networks of Nonfiction 119
11. Chapter 7. Distant Wars: South Africa and Beyond 145
12. Chapter 8. Telling Tales: Studio-Based Production 167
13. Chapter 9. “Daddy Paul”: The Cultural Economy of Cinema in Britain 189
14. Chapter 10. “My Original Business”: Paul’s Technical and Scientific Work 201
15. Chapter 11. Paul and Early Film History 217
16. Epilogue 247
17. Appendix A. “A Novel Form of Exhibition or Entertainment, Means for Presenting the Same”: Paul’s “Time Machine” Patent Application, 1895 261
18. Appendix B. Flotation advertisement, 1897 265
19. Robert Paul Productions 1895–1909 271
20. Notes 289
21. Index 331