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