1888day.year
Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
Louis Le Prince filmed what is regarded as the world’s earliest motion picture, the 'Roundhay Garden Scene,' on October 14, 1888.
French inventor Louis Le Prince recorded the 'Roundhay Garden Scene' using a single-lens camera of his own design in Leeds, England. The brief clip, lasting just a few seconds, captures family members strolling in a garden. This experiment represents the first known instance of film footage, predating the cinematic advances of Edison and the Lumière brothers. Le Prince’s work demonstrated the feasibility of capturing and projecting moving images. Despite his pioneering achievement, he mysteriously disappeared two years later, and his contributions were long overshadowed. Historians now credit the Roundhay film as a seminal moment in the birth of cinema. The footage’s preservation provides a rare glimpse into the dawn of motion picture technology.
1888
Louis Le Prince
motion picture
Roundhay Garden Scene