The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World

by TerryGilliam (Foreword), IanChristie (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $7.61

  The Last Machine is a TV series, introduced by Terry Gilliam, which takes viewers on a tour of the very earliest days of cinema. This official book of the series recalls the origins, both obvious and unexpected, of cinema - from the early 19th century to 1913. Chapters which mirror the themes of the television series are interspersed with special close-ups on 25 selected key early film-makers, from Lumiere and Edison to Pathe and Melies.