Imágenes en movimientopiratería, litigios sobre patentes y otras anécdotas en la carrera por la invención del cine

  1. Martínez Alcañiz, Violeta
Book:
III Congreso Internacional Historia, arte y literatura en el cine en español y portugués: hibridaciones, transformaciones y nuevos espacios narrativos: 24, 25 y 26 de junio 2015, Salamanca
  1. Camarero Calandria, María Emma (coord.)
  2. Marcos Ramos, María (coord.)

Publisher: Centro de Estudios Brasileños ; Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-606-8174-8

Year of publication: 2015

Volume: 2

Pages: 511-518

Congress: Congreso Internacional Historia, literatura y arte en el cine en español y portugués (3. 2015. Salamanca)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

By the 1890s, the principle of persistence of vision was well known. Numerous inventors competed for being the father of cinema as we know it today. Nevertheless, this competition would be marked by patent disputes, piracy, strong disagreements between partners or a secret collaboration with the competition. This race would even involve the mysterious vanishing of Louis Le Prince in 1890 before presenting his first films shot in 1888; namely, some years before those of Thomas Edison (1893), the British partners Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres (1895) or the Lumière brothers (1895). This dissertation will focus on these struggles �less know by the audience� that preceded the birth of the cinema.