This week I talk about Louis Le Prince, a man who shot and filmed a motion picture long before anyone else, including Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers. But Le Prince never got to show his work, as he mysteriously disappeared on his way to America to show off his new inventions.

You’ve heard the names, Eadweard Muybridge, Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Edison, Alice Guy-Blaché, and the Lumière brothers. The early pioneers of cinema. But before any of them ever shot a frame of film, there was a man who not only created a film camera but shot and projected at least three films. His three-second epics were called Roundhay Garden Scene, Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, and Man with an accordion. Each of these films was about three seconds long or shorter, yet they were the first films in History. Today I have the story of Louis Le Prince, his invention, and his disappearance.

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