The inventor and the tycoon [a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures]

Ball, Edward 1959- (Author). Mayer, John H. (Narrator). Books on Tape, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary: One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307876652 (electronic audio bk.)
ISBN: 0307876659 (electronic audio bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
access
remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (15 hr., 20 min.)) : digital.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Subtitle from publisher.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by John H. Mayer.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.