Total Page : 200
Publisher : General Books LLC
Publication Date : 2009 08 09
>> Text Only
This book is fine for what it is but it consists merely of a reprint of the original text None of the original figures or illustrations are included and these are an integral part of the book
>> Bad work
It is quite a shame that this facsimile is so badly made The pictures are really bad reproduced and why is it that page 117 is not there Instead page 113 is shown one more time And in several places the text is distorted from the scanning
>> shameless or blind
Glorifying and corny Unconditional praise of Edison achievements Though the authors are clearly well read too many facts are ignored in the account of the circumnstances that lead Edison to the accumulation of patents Lacks any critic view and end up creating an image of an american hero that is as ridiculous as untruth I quote just as an example In fact if it were not for Edison s peculiar mentality that refuses to recognize anything as impossible until indubitably demonstrated to be so the production of motion pictures would certainly have been delayed for years if not for all time
Anyone seriously interested on the subject of the birht of cinema would recognize this as total nonsense or shameless manipulation of facts
A book to avoid by anyone interested in having a truthfull and independent view on history
