A monumental reference work of particular interest to scholars.
Henry V. Hopwood. Living Pictures: their history, photo-reproduction and practical working. London, 1899.
Robert Bruce Foster. Hopwood’s Living Pictures.
London, 1915.
The original edition of this book and the revised edition both include a general review of early activity plus a valuable bibliography of the period from 1825 to 1898.
G. Michel Coissac. Histoire du Cinématographe de ses origines jusqu’à nos jours. Paris, 1925.
The first half of this book is an important historical work, written from the French point of view. An appendix lists French cinema patents issued from 1890 to 1900.
Major General James Waterhouse. “Notes on the early history of the camera obscura,” Photographic Journal, Vol. XXV, No. 9.
London, May 31, 1901.
Georges Potonniee. Les Origines du Cinématographe.