Louis Le Prince
Louis Le Prince | |
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| Born | Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince 28 August 1841 Metz, France |
| Disappeared | 16 September 1890 (aged 49) Dijon, France |
| Status | Vanished |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, Art teacher, inventor, |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Le Prince-Whitley (m. 1869–1890) |
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (French: [lwi lə pʁɛ̃s]; 28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and inventor. He filmed what may have been the first moving picture sequences to use a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.[1]
Le Prince was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously vanished from a train on 16 September 1890.[1] His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found that had a photograph of a drowned man who could have been him.
In the years after his death, his son Adolphe was in a court. He was representing Louis, in a battle against Thomas Edison to name the true inventor of motion pictures.[2] Edison won the case and a few months later, Adolphe was killed in a hunting accident.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "BBC Education – Local Heroes Le Prince Biography". Archived from the original on November 28, 1999. Retrieved 2022-03-12., BBC, archived on 1999-11-28
- ↑ "Pioneers of Early Cinema: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (1841–1890?)" (PDF). National Media Museum. June 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
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