Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey (Centenary of Cinema)

Cinema arrived in 1895 and had reached almost every corner of the globe by 1896. This reference records the lives of the people who made it happen. From Thomas Edison, inventor, to Eugene Pirou, pornographer, and from Alice Guy, director, to James Corbett, boxer, this book documents over 250 key figures worldwide. It features 21 contributors from around the world.