Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam

by John Fullerton

In 1888, Thomas Edison announced that he was experimenting on "an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion." Just as Edison's investigations were framed in terms of the known technologies of the phonograph and the microscope, the essays in this collection address the contexts of innovation and reception that have framed the development of moving images in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864620544
• ISBN13: 9781864620542
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: John Libbey & Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher