Louis Le Prince

Louis Le Prince

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film. He has been credited as the "Father of Cinematography", but his work did not influence the commercial development of cinema—owing largely to the events surrounding his 1890 disappearance.A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince's motion-picture experiments culminated in 1888 in Leeds, England. In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of family members in Roundhay Garden and his son playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Le Prince has received more than 1,084,799 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Louis Le Prince is the 133rd most popular inventor (up from 150th in 2019), the 1,605th most popular biography from France (up from 1,819th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Inventor.