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The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures /

The story of Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of stop-motion photography and moving pictures--who was also a murderer--and his relationship with Leland Stanford, the wealthy railroad baron and founder of Stanford University.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Edward, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Muybridge, Eadweard, > 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard, > 1830-1904 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Stanford, Leland, > 1824-1893.
Trials (Murder) > California > San Francisco.
Cinematography > United States > History.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Cinematographers > California > Biography.
Businesspeople > California > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The Stanford entertainment
  • The yellow jacket murder
  • God of the sun
  • Harnessing the elephant
  • The photographer
  • Flora Downs
  • Occident
  • Harry Larkyns
  • The octopus
  • Little Harry
  • King Eadweard
  • Marital rights
  • The grocer
  • The immigrant
  • The trial
  • The speculator
  • Verdicts
  • The horse lovers
  • Prestidigitator
  • Motion, study
  • Celluloid
  • The flood.