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This week on the Secret Library we are delighted to welcome back guest author Irfan Shah, who has previously written for us on Leeds’ contribution to the development of photography. In this article, roughly coinciding with the 130th anniversary of the disappearance of Louis Le Prince (September 16 1890), Irfan shares some exciting news about his continuing research into Leeds’ place in the early history of cinema…
Recently, I have been poring over an old photograph of a tall, thin man whose face is, in the picture, indistinct. The man is standing next to a dog and they are both in front of a large wooden house in New York sometime in the Nineteenth (or very early Twentieth) Century.
I have been wondering whether it might be a photograph of the inventor Louis Le Prince who, in 1888, shot a series of films here in Leeds but who also lived in New York for several years in the house that is in the photograph. There are very few photographs of Le Prince and the ones that do exist have, over the years, been copied and cropped, etched, colourised and flipped so that it seems there are more than there really are. However, all these various copies are taken from just seven photographs. Any ‘new’ likeness of Le Prince would therefore be a precious thing, but as yo
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"Roundhay Garden Scene": The Early Surviving Lp
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Roundhay Garden Scene
Earliest surviving film (1888)
"Oldest film" redirects here. For earlier films that are often considered the first film, see Passage de Vénus, The Horse in Motion, and Man Walking Around a Corner.
Roundhay Garden Scene is a shortsilent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Yorkshire on 14 October 1888.[1] It is believed to be the oldest surviving film. The camera used was patented in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1888.[2]
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[edit]According to Le Prince's son, Adolphe, Roundhay Garden Scene was made at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 14 October 1888.[3] The footage features Adolphe, the Whitleys, and Annie Hartley leisurely walking around the garden of Oakwood Grange. Sarah is seen walking – or dancing – backward as she turns around, and Joseph's coattails fly as he turns also. Joseph (1817–1891) and Sarah (née Robinson, 1816–1888) were the parents of Elizabeth, Louis Le Prince's wife, and Hartley is believed to have been a friend of the Le Princes. Sarah Whitley died ten days after the scene was filmed.[4]
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