-This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid . . . has fascinated cin-tes for years.- Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times
-Illuminating and thrilling.- The Spectator
-Absorbing, forensic and jaw-dropping.- Total Film
In 1888, Louis Le Prince shot the world-s first motion picture in Leeds, England.
In 1890, weeks before the planned public unveiling of his camera and projector, Le Prince boarded a train in France - and disappeared without a trace. His body was never found.
In 1891, Thomas Edison - inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph - announced that he had developed a motion-picture camera.
Le Prince-s family, convinced that Edison had stolen Louis-s work, proceeded to sue the most famous inventor in the world. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures excavates one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Victorian age and offers a revelatory rewriting of the birth of modern pictures.
