The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world’s first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and projector – a year before Thomas Edison announced that he had invented a motion picture camera – Le Prince stepped on a train in France – and disappeared without a trace. He was never seen or heard from again. No body was ever found.

Paul Fischer, film producer and author, has unearthed one of the Victorian age’s great unsolved mysteries. Paul joins Dan on the podcast to discuss Le Prince’s career, the story behind the first motion picture, and the lawsuit to determine who, in the eyes of the law, was the inventor.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History Yet.
0:03.2	Talk about the history of Cinemat, a moving picture.
0:06.0	It's a strange thing.
0:07.8	It's quite contested who shot the first moving picture.
0:11.8	Thomas Edison, claim that he did, obviously.
0:15.0	He kind of made moving pictures and a kind of
0:17.5	peep show device called the Kinetoscope.
0:19.8	It was an 1894 that people could queue up and watch
0:23.2	a series of still photographs were rapidly moved through a single lens.
0:28.6	The French, of course, they claim it as well.
0:31.0	Obviously, you'd expect them to August and Louis Lumière.
0:35.0	They said they invented moving pictures in December 1895.
0:38.0	They had the first ever commercial showing of a moving picture
0:40.8	in the Grand Café in Paris.
0:43.6	But the truth is, in fact, it was someone in Britain.
0:46.8	It was actually a Frenchman living in Britain in Leeds,
0:49.0	of course, West Yorkshire, where all the best things happen.
0:52.0	Louis Leprints shot the first motion picture.
0:54.8	A year before Thomas Edison's invention went on display.
0:59.4	And yet, weeks before he unveiled its Republic,
1:03.4	he bought the train and disappeared was never ever seen again.
1:06.2	It's one of the great unsolved mysteries of exorbitant age.
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