Louis Le Prince: The Story of the Man Who Made History's First Movie and then Vanished without a Trace in 1890. Did his own Family make him Disappear?
It is a movie that is aptly titled Roundhay Garden Scene because that is exactly what it is. That is exactly ALL that it is--simply a movie of people walking in a garden that lasts for a whopping three seconds. But what makes this mundane few seconds of grainy black and white footage of an English garden so remarkable is that Roundhay Garden Scene is believed to be the very first motion picture--the very first recorded moving images of human beings ever captured on film--in the history of the world. Roundhay Garden Scene was produced, filmed and directed by French born inventor and artist Louis Le Prince nearly one-hundred and forty years ago, at the height of the Victorian Era, on October 14, 1888 in Leeds, Yorkshire England at about the exact same time in history that the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the slums and working class neighborhoods of London. This three second film of formally dressed Victorian Era folk frolicking in an arist...