Louis Le Prince

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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (French: [lwi l(ə) pʁɛ̃s]; 28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890; declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French-American 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 influence the commercial development of cinema. In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving-picture sequences of family members in Leeds, in the 1888 short films Roundhay Garden Scene, and Accordion Player (showing his son Adolphe Le Prince playing the accordion), using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. In the next eighteen months, he also made the short film Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge. His work appears to precede the inventions of his contemporaries, such as Friese...

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