The First Film: Roundhay Garden Scene
THE FATHER OF FILM: Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841, vanished 16 September 1890) was an inventor who is generally recognized as the first person to record motion images on film.
Le Prince was a Frenchman who divided his adult life among France, Britain and the United States. His ground-breaking work in 1888 was conducted in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously vanished from a train in 1890. His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found to contain a photograph of a drowned man who could be him.
THE FIRST FILM: Roundhay Garden Scene The earliest surviving film, recorded at 12 frames per second, was created by Louis Le Prince. It was a two seconds film of people walking around in Oakwood Grange garden, titled Roundhay Garden Scene. According to Le Prince’s son, Adolphe, it was filmed at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England on October 14, 1888.
THE SECOND FILM: 1888 – Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge This motion picture was taken in late October 1888 by a camera of Le Prince’s invention on 2 1/8 inch wide sensitized photographic paper at a shutter rate of approximately 20 frames per second. The production was shot in Leeds, England. Le Prince’s second motion picture.
What a difference a hundred years makes 100 years of progress… in 1988, the #1 grossing movie at the box office was Rain Main. 
In October 1888, Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, which is thought to be the world’s first successful attempt to record moving images, and hence the very first motion picture film. This was several years before the work of competing inventors such as Thomas Edison and Auguste and Louis Lumière.
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