J. J. Zepfanman @...readers wants to read History of the kinetograph, kinetoscope and kinetophonograph by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (The Literature of cinema)
Probably the first history of film, 1895, written by the inventor W.K.L. Dickson and his sister Antonia. Available to borrow and read online here: archive.org/details/historyofkinetog0000dick