The Roundhay Garden Scene was shown and recreated for the grand finale of the 10th Annual Live On Cinema Oscar Special
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Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was a French artist, cinematographer and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene. He was possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film. He has been credited as the "Father of Cinematography" but, due to his disappearance in 1890, his work did not influen…
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science · French motion-picture pioneer (1841–1890s) · inventor · film director · cinematographer · chemist · also Louis Le Prince, Louis LePrince, LePrince, Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, Prince
Born 28 August 1841 · Q421675
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2023· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Researcher Irfan Shah announced the possibility of three more sequences shot by Le Prince
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2017· 1 entry
And discussed in Stephen Herbert's Muyblog website
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2013· 1 entry
A feature documentary, The First Film was produced, with new research material and documentation on the life of Le Prince and his patents
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2003· 1 entry
The University of Leeds's Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television was named in his honour
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1999· 1 entry
These were re-animated to produce digital versions
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1992· 1 entry
The Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii directed Talking Head, an avant-garde feature film paying tribute to the tragic endings of early cinematography figures such as George Eastman, Georges Méliès and Louis Le Prince who i
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1990· 1 entry
Christopher Rawlence wrote The Missing Reel, The Untold Story of the Lost inventor of Moving Pictures and produced the TV programme The Missing Reel (1989) for Channel Four, a dramatised feature on the life of Le Prince
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1983· 1 entry
And is now the National Science and Media Museum)
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1977· 1 entry
That claimed Le Prince died in Chicago in 1898, having moved there at the family's request because he was homosexual; but he rejects that assertion
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1967· 1 entry
Jean Mitry proposed, in Histoire du cinéma, that Le Prince was killed
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1966· 1 entry
Jacques Deslandes proposed a theory in Histoire comparée du cinéma (The Comparative History of Cinema), claiming that Le Prince voluntarily disappeared due to financial reasons and "familial conveniences"
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
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1898· 2 entries
Adolphe appeared as a witness for the defence in a court case brought by Thomas Edison against the American Mutoscope Company, in which Edison claimed to be the first and sole inventor of cinematography, and thus entitle
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Le Prince's elder son Adolphe, who had assisted his father in many of his experiments, was called as a witness for the American Mutoscope Company in their litigation with Edison [Equity 6928]
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1890· 2 entries
His work did not influence the commercial development of cinema
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Strongly resembling Le Prince, was discovered in 2003 during research in the Paris police archives
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1889· 1 entry
Took French-American dual citizenship in order to establish himself with his family in New York City and to follow up his research
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1881· 1 entry
Le Prince went to the United States as an agent for Lincrusta Walton, staying in the country along with his family once his contract had ended
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1876· 1 entry
Le Prince was a Freemason, initiated into the Lodge of Fidelity No. 289 in Leeds in 1876, he later demitted in 1880.
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1869· 1 entry
Married Sarah Elizabeth Whitley, John's sister and a talented artist
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1866· 1 entry
After being invited to join John Whitley, a friend introduced by a former university lecturer, in Whitley Partners of Hunslet, a firm of brass founders making valves and components
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1841· 1 entry
Born 1841-08-28.
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