276: What Happened to Louis Le Prince? w/ Paul Fischer - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In the late 19th century, inventors were rushing to perfect and patent motion picture devices, and leading the race was a Frenchman named Louis Le Prince. In September of 1890 Le Prince said farewell to his brother in Dijon and boarded a train bound for Paris. His final destination would be the United States, where he planned to unveil his movie camera and projector to the world. Unfortunately he was never seen again.

There are many theories regarding Le Prince's disappearance. Did he run away with a mistress, or was he murdered? If murdered, then by who? Was it his brother, who he shared an inheritance with? Was it a stranger in a dark Paris alley? Or was Thomas Edison behind it, the famed American inventor who announced the creation of his own motion picture camera just months after Le Prince disappeared?

My guest is Paul Fischer, author of "The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies". He tells the story of Louis Le Prince, his quest to invent and patent the first movie camera and projector, and the tragedy that followed.

More about the author and his work can be found at his website: https://www.paulfischerauthor.com/

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1:25.0	Welcome everyone to another episode of the most notorious podcast. I'm Eric Rivenes
1:30.0	and Happy Holidays. I am very excited to have Paul Fisher with me today.
1:36.0	He is an author and film producer based in the United Kingdom. His first book,
1:42.0	a Kim Jong Il production, was nominated for the Crime Writer's Association's
1:48.0	Nonfiction Book Award. He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
1:53.0	and the Independent. And the book he is here to talk about today is called
2:00.0	The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures, the True Tale of Obsession, Murder,
2:06.0	and the Movies. Thanks so much for talking with me today.
2:11.0	Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
2:13.0	Absolutely. So where did the idea for this book come from?
2:19.0	It came from, well, I've always had an interest in kind of early cinema,
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