Directed by:
John BoultingScreenplay:
Eric AmblerCinematography:
Jack CardiffComposer:
William AlwynCast:
Renée Asherson, Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Richard Attenborough, Edward Chapman, Henry Edwards, Robert Flemyng, Leo Genn, Joyce Grenfell, Kathleen Harrison (more)Plots(1)
Adapted by Eric Ambler from the controversial biography by Ray Allister, Magic Box contends that Friese-Greene was the true father of motion pictures, and not such upstarts as W. K. L. Dickson and Thomas Edison. Told in flashback, the film details Friese-Greene's tireless experiments with the "moving image," leading inexorably to a series of failures and disappoints, as others hog the credit for the protagonist's discoveries. (official distributor synopsis)
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