Getting into the picture business
Flashback: an engineer's education
"Adding interest to wonder": the first year in film
Time travel: film, the past, and posterity
"True till death!" family business
Home and away: networks of nonfiction
Distant wars: South Africa and beyond
Telling tales: studio-based production
"Daddy Paul": the cultural economy of cinema in Britain
"My original business": Paul's technical and scientific work
Paul and early film history
Epilogue.