118 The Unsolved Disappearance of the Man Who Invented Motion Pictures | Paul Fischer
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Louis Le Prince was the first person to create moving pictures—but just weeks before unveiling his invention to the world, he mysteriously disappeared.
Three and a half years later, Thomas Edison, Le Prince's rival, made the device public, claiming to have invented it himself. And the man who had dedicated his life to preserving memories was himself lost to history—until now!
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello and welcome to the 118th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:14.8 | I am Travis DeRose, the host, and I'm back. |
| 0:17.8 | I know. |
| 0:18.4 | It's been a while. |
| 0:19.3 | Sorry for the gap. Did that Route 66 trip, |
| 0:24.6 | and that was just a ton of content, but we're back now. It was great. It was fun. A lot of YouTube |
| 0:31.5 | video content, but we got to get back to that good old podcast, you know, and this is a good |
| 0:36.5 | episode to dive back into. It was really |
| 0:38.4 | fun to record this episode. This episode is with Paul Fisher, the author of the book entitled |
| 0:44.2 | The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures and one of my favorite books I've ever read. It's just |
| 0:51.0 | such an interesting story that combines a story the, uh, in a story of |
| 0:56.2 | invention and, you know, coming up with this tinkering and all this kind of stuff, but also true |
| 1:01.0 | crime murder mystery. It's good. It's really good. And, uh, this is a great, great interview. |
| 1:08.6 | Paul does a really good job of, of kind of explaining everything and walking us through the whole story. It's great. I think you're really going to love it. So let's just get into the episode. Here is episode 118 with Paul Fisher. |
| 1:27.4 | All right. Paul, how are you doing? |
| 1:30.0 | I'm all right. How are you? |
| 1:31.4 | Doing good. |
| 1:32.6 | Excited to talk. Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:34.7 | But it's... |
| 1:35.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, heck yeah. I'm just... I'm honored to have you on. |
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