the inventor and the tycoon by edward ball

But a movie about the birth of movies, murder and ambition? Sounds like a good mix to us. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.īogdanovich will develop and co-executive produce the project too, but no word yet on who will put together the script. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge’s quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. 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. 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. 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. From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. The Inventor and the Tycoon - The Inventor and the Tycoon audiobook, by Edward Ball.

IndieWire’s Consider This Event Welcomes Christina Ricci, Danny Elfman, Nicco Annan, Alethea Jones, & Moreįrom the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.

The inventor and the tycoon by edward ball