Louis Le Prince - Leeds, UK
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This blue plaque is on the side of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities of Leeds University and commemorates the site of a former workshop of a pioneer of film making.
Waymark Code: WM12606
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/07/2020
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LOUIS LE PRINCE
The pioneer of cinematography
had a workshop on this site
where he invented a one-lens
camera and a projecting machine.
Le Prince produced what are
believed to be the world's first
moving pictures taken on
Leeds Bridge in 1888.
"Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince ( 28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion picture camera, the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film. Although some have credited him as the "Father of Cinematography", his work did not influence the commercial development of cinema—owing at least in part to the great secrecy surrounding it.
A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince's motion-picture experiments culminated in 1888 in the city of Leeds, England. In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of Roundhay Garden, Leeds Bridge, and his brother playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture pioneers such as William Friese-Greene and Wordsworth Donisthorpe, and years in advance of that of Auguste and Louis Lumière, and William Kennedy Dickson (who did the moving image work for Thomas Edison)."
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There is another blue plaque near the site of the film that was made at Leeds Bridge.
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