The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies

If you listen in pieces — commute, chores, late night — The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer keeps its place in this browser.

The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his “taker” or “receiver” device for his family on the front lawn. The device is meant to capture 10 to 12 images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human experience—from the most mundane to the most momentous

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