Synopsis
To try to chart the origins of the cinema in terms of its inventors and inventions is to open up a maze of claims and counter-claims, of parallel discoveries and freakish anticipations. Even in the 1890s these claims were the source of a number of lawsuits over patents that make Dickens’s celebrated case of Jarndyce versus Jarndyce. in Bleak House, seem by comparison a model of legal simplicity.
Reviews
‘Given Eric Rhode’s task to see what “insight might be gained by relating movies, and the people who make them, to the culture of their society “, his acquittal is impressive ... No one with the remotest interest in film could fail to be carried along by the perceptive, independent-minded, and good-humoured narrative, even when in active disagreement’ - The Times Literary Supplement
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