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Donald G. Godfrey - C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television - 9780252038280 - V9780252038280
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C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television

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Description for C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television Hardback. Presents the biography of the important American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). This book documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death. Series: History of Communication. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 black & white photographs, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: APF; APT; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 626.

This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death. Jenkins was an inventor who made a difference.

As one of America's greatest independent inventors, Jenkins's passion was to meet the needs of his day and the future. In 1895 he produced the first film projector able to show a motion picture on a large screen, coincidentally ... Read more

Godfrey's biography raises the profile of C. Francis Jenkins from his former place in the footnotes to his rightful position as a true pioneer of today's film and television. Along the way, it provides a window into the earliest days of both motion pictures and television as well as the now-vanished world of the independent inventor.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
History of Communication
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252038280
SKU
V9780252038280
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Donald G. Godfrey
Donald G. Godfrey is a broadcast educator, professional broadcaster, and historian. His many works include Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television and the Historical Dictionary of American Radio. Godfrey is a past president of the national Broadcast Education Association (BEA), a former editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and served as president of the National Council ... Read more

Reviews for C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television
"Almost eighty years following Jenkins’ death, the story of his life and many achievements is finally being told."
Robin Vierbuchen Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News   "With his biography of Francis Jenkins (indeed, the first ever), Don Godfrey again demonstrates his "chops" as a historian willing to do the archival digging necessary to rescue a ... Read more

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