Paul Fischer

In 1888, Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and projector— a year before Thomas Edison announced that he had invented a motion picture camera—Le Prince stepped on a train in France and disappeared without a trace. He was never seen or heard from again....

'This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid . . . has fascinated cineastes 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,...

Coppola - The Godfather Spielberg - Jaws Lucas - Star Wars This is the story of the most successful group of friends in the history of cinema and how they reshaped it forever. The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled...