Book
The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Doubleday, c2013.
Physical Description
xiv, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
A riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
Subjects
- 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.