The Magic Box

“A rich and deeply moving story of a man whose achievement opened up a new world, and of the two women whose love and sacrifices made it possible!”

William Friese-Greene (Robert Donat) is an old man, ill and poor, when the film looks back to the young portrait photographer who took his first wife's name and began chasing a way to project moving pictures. John Boulting follows that chase through Edith (Margaret Johnston) and the years that cost the people around him. Friese-Greene keeps building, certain the next machine will work, and he never learns to stop.