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Mysterious Disappearance of Louis Le Prince
Mysterious Disappearance of Louis Le Prince
Written By Mister Gu on Sunday, April 27, 2014 | 10:24 PM
Several years before the work of Auguste, Louis Lumière and Thomas Edison; in October 1888, Louis Le Prince recorded the first moving images in Leeds at Roundhay Park and on Leeds Bridge using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film. However, he was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously disappeared after boarding a Paris-bound