Le Prince (full name Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince?), patented the world's first single lens motion picture camera was in Leeds, England in 1888.
See 100 Years of Film.
October 14, 1888: first movie created
Although controversy and debate persists, Louis Le Prince, rather than Thomas Edison or the Lumiere brothers, is widely considered to be the inventor of the motion picture camera as well as the first person to record moving pictures on film.
Louis Le Prince started commercial development of his motion picture camera in early 1890 and gave a well documented demonstration to M. Mobisson, the Secretary of the Paris Opera.
The first films were made on a sensitised paper roll which measured a little over 2 inches wide. In 1889, M. Le Prince was able to obtain celluloid roll film from Eastman when it was introduced in England.
# Worlds first movies Le Prince shot the worlds first movies. There are three remaining sequnces:
YOUTUBE AWK-ImxF-e4 Man Walking Around A Corner.
ARCHIVE Roundhay_Garden_Scene Roundhay Garden Scene - shot on October 14, 1888
ARCHIVE Leeds_Bridge_1888 Leeds_Bridge (1888) by Louis Le Prince
YOUTUBE jwQcY1-XM6U The Accordion Player - last remaining film (probably 1888).
# Dissappearence
On September 16 1890, he boarded a train at Dijon bound for Paris carrying with him his motion picture camera and films. He never arrived in Paris.
He was was on his way to a planned public demonstration in the US. No trace of Le Prince or his motion picture camera were ever found.
16 September 1890: le Prince disappears
The mystery was never solved however a photograph of a drowning victim from 1890 resembling Le Prince was discovered in 2003 during research in the Paris police archives
# See also
- Louis Le Prince
- Man Walking Around A Corner
- Roundhay Garden Scene
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
- The Accordion Player
- World's first film in Leeds - bbc.co.uk 