the first motion film

blog question: Who was Louis Le Prince? What was his contribution to cinema? After reading about him, what surprises you about reading this article?


"The Father of Cinematography", Louis Le Prince was according to new research, the first person to make a movie. He moved to England after studying chemistry and physics in France and established the Leeds Technical School or Art where he specialized in tinting and firing of photographic images. In 1886, he created a 16-lens camera. The Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera is believed to be the equipment used to film the famous Roundhay Garden and Leeds Bridge scenes, proved to be one of the most ground-breaking inventions of early cinema. What surprised be about him was that he majored in chemistry and physics, but became apart of film. This proves that what you study in college, doesn't mean you have to become it.