Summary of Paul Fischer's The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures

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#1 The train to Paris, which was expected at 2:37 p. m. , arrived five minutes late. Louis Le Prince, Albert’s brother, had come to visit him. He had been working on a moving picture machine, and he would soon bring it back to the United States with him.

#2 Louis and Albert were not very comfortable together. They would often discuss finances, which neither had much of. Louis was sure the motion picture device would change all of this.

#3 Louis and Albert had been friends for nearly 20 years, and they had traveled to France together. They had agreed to meet again in Paris for the journey back to England. But Louis did not appear. The Wilsons boarded the ferry alone, assuming Louis was still with Albert in Burgundy.

#4 Le Prince’s wife, Lizzie, waited on the Battery Park waterfront for her husband to return. He had been away for three years, working on a motion picture camera and projector in England.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822509849

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Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The train to Paris, which was expected at 2:37 p. m. , arrived five minutes late. Louis Le Prince, Albert’s brother, had come to visit him. He had been working on a moving picture machine, and he would soon bring it back to the United States with him.

#2

Louis and Albert were not very comfortable together. They would often discuss finances, which neither had much of. Louis was sure the motion picture device would change all of this.

#3

Louis and Albert had been friends for nearly 20 years, and they had traveled to France together. They had agreed to meet again in Paris for the journey back to England. But Louis did not appear. The Wilsons boarded the ferry alone, assuming Louis was still with Albert in Burgundy.

#4

Le Prince’s wife, Lizzie, waited on the Battery Park waterfront for her husband to return. He had been away for three years, working on a motion picture camera and projector in England.

#5

On October 20, the RMS Umbria, the largest, fastest, and most luxurious ship in the Cunard Line fleet, arrived in New York. Among its thirteen hundred passengers was Joseph Whitley, who had celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday at sea. He was accompa­nied not by Louis but by a distant relative, Arthur Oates.

#6

The house where Lizzie lived was known to be haunted. It was rumored that Eliza Jumel, the socialite after whom the house was named, had killed her first husband.

#7

Until 1890, new immigrants to the United States had been processed within the circular fort of Castle Garden, on a man-made island off Manhattan’s tip. The immigrants were examined by a doctor and registered their names and personal details with state clerks.

#8

Castle Garden was legendary. It had opened in 1855, and by 1890, it had processed nearly ten million immigrants.

#9

After 56 days, the Barge Office registrar finally found Le Prince’s name on the 11th of November. It was a stranger who had left his small town for the American West, in search of better land to cultivate.

#10

Louis Le Prince, a writer, was scheduled to travel on the ship to America. He was replaced by Arthur Oates, a relative who volunteered. Oates’s description matches records of an Arthur Oates, born April 1857 in Dewsbury, just south of Leeds.

#11

In December 1890, the house was hit by a violent wind and rainstorm, and the old walls groaned as the gale howled. The Le Prince children did their best to generate the spirit for the season, but their father passed away in the night.

#12

The Kinetograph was a peep-show device that could display images on a screen. It was an infringement on Le