Hello ready welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown the

the show where we Decode the Unknown yes it's right there in the title this is the

mysterious fate of I think he's French because there's a luh in his name

Louis le France or Prince I'm going to call him Louis le Prince because that feels

more natural to me and I'm an extremely professional professional I'm not going to look

it up. The format of the show is one of my writers Katie, thank you Katie, has written me the script.

I've never read it before. We're going to read it together. Do a little exploring, a little

decoding. If you enjoy this show, why not leave it a review? Yes, oh, and if you're watching on YouTube, hello,

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Let's jump in. You may not be immediately familiar with this subject's name already correct Katie well

done I mean I feel like maybe but I don't know why but if you're watching this

episode with your eyes then you might have Louis the Prince to thank for that.

Well, because this goes as a podcast, and more and more people listen to this as a podcast.

I see those numbers tick up, which is really nice.

So maybe you're not using your eyes to listen to this.

I mean, how would you use your eyes to listen to something that makes no sense?

But you know what I mean.

Well, kind of, let me explain.

Back in the 1880s, technology was advancing and the race was on to capture moving images rather than just

photographs. With various different people improving on different aspects of the process,

Frenchmen, nailed it, Louis Le Prince was the first person to capture a moving image on a single camera

lens. Excited about the possibilities of his new technology, he planned to rejoin his family

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