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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy B. Wilson.

This is a person that has been on my list for a very long time. And then it kind of shot to the top of the list after we did the Edward

Moibridge episode. He's going to come up a little bit today. And then recently I was a guest at

Indiana Comic Convention and I was chatting with my friend and friend of the show, Brian Young, and he was all, oh, you should do an episode on Louis Le Prince.

And I was like, I know.

He had just been reading about him and was really into the conspiracy of it all.

So here is the thing.

I'm going to Sunset Boulevard you a little bit. On September 16th of 1890, Louis LePrinz

vanished. He was never seen or heard from again. The many events that led to that moment

have also led to a great deal of speculation about what exactly happened.

And that is kind of the most well-known thing about him.

It has certainly been discussed a lot in film circles.

That's where I first learned about him when I was in college getting my theater and film studies degree.

But he had a whole life before that, some of which had nothing to do with film and was very, very interesting and

filled with other intriguing things. So we are going to talk about, of course, his work in

cinematography that was very groundbreaking and his disappearance. But that's going to be

like the last third of the episode, because there is plenty to talk about in his life before that.

Another thing to talk about is names. So, the prince was named Louis Eme Augustin Le Prince.

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