Louis Le Prince
French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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