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Description:Fourteen-year-old Billy Miller couldn't believe that a French cigar box with a lens could capture pictures of people moving! Yet, trusting sixty feet of film to whirring gears and rattling tines caused trains to come alive on the screen and sent patrons scrambling for cover! There were very few "magic boxes" in 1896, and Thomas Edison determined his camera alone should own the screen and all things related to living pictures. The rivalry between Edison and Billy's employer resulted in patent warfare where cameras were smashed and their operators beaten. But Billy had famous people like Teddy Roosevelt and Alexander Graham Bell eager to parade for his camera, and their friendship helped him survive. This is the first of six novels tracking Billy's illustrious career in moving pictures. Billy photograph's America's first horseless carriage race from Albany to Manhattan, dodges bullets in Cuba with Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and records Roosevelt's campaign for president. Billy's also photographing the Buffalo Exposition when President William McKinley's shot and his old friend Teddy Roosevelt assumes the presidency! Along the way Billy's camera captures the first moving pictures of actual warfare, immigrants arriving in America, Clara Barton's Red Cross in action, Henry Ford, Geronimo, the Galveston devastation and San Francisco's great earthquake. When the public bores with "coming and going" pictures, Billy builds a studio for moving pictures with stories and suffers through the agony of sets, actors and rampant egos--not unlike the Hollywood of today!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Flickers: The Beginning. To get started finding Flickers: The Beginning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Fourteen-year-old Billy Miller couldn't believe that a French cigar box with a lens could capture pictures of people moving! Yet, trusting sixty feet of film to whirring gears and rattling tines caused trains to come alive on the screen and sent patrons scrambling for cover! There were very few "magic boxes" in 1896, and Thomas Edison determined his camera alone should own the screen and all things related to living pictures. The rivalry between Edison and Billy's employer resulted in patent warfare where cameras were smashed and their operators beaten. But Billy had famous people like Teddy Roosevelt and Alexander Graham Bell eager to parade for his camera, and their friendship helped him survive. This is the first of six novels tracking Billy's illustrious career in moving pictures. Billy photograph's America's first horseless carriage race from Albany to Manhattan, dodges bullets in Cuba with Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and records Roosevelt's campaign for president. Billy's also photographing the Buffalo Exposition when President William McKinley's shot and his old friend Teddy Roosevelt assumes the presidency! Along the way Billy's camera captures the first moving pictures of actual warfare, immigrants arriving in America, Clara Barton's Red Cross in action, Henry Ford, Geronimo, the Galveston devastation and San Francisco's great earthquake. When the public bores with "coming and going" pictures, Billy builds a studio for moving pictures with stories and suffers through the agony of sets, actors and rampant egos--not unlike the Hollywood of today!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Flickers: The Beginning. To get started finding Flickers: The Beginning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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