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Roundhay Garden Scene

Roundhay Garden Scene

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  • United Kingdom,
  • France
  • 1888
  • · 1m

Director Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Cast Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sarah Whitley, Annie Hartley
Genre Documentary

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera.

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