The last remaining production of Le Prince's LPCC Type-16 (16-lens camera) is part of a gelatine film shot in 32 images/second, and pictures a man walking around a corner. Le Prince, who was in Leeds (UK) at that time, sent these images to his wife in New York City in a letter dated 18 August 1887.
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Le Prince invented movies then vanished forever. Talk about commitment.
Production
16-lens camera capturing 32fps in 1887. Steampunk dreams realized.
Director
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Le Prince was officially declared the inventor of motion pictures by the Leeds Philosophical Society in 1930—forty years after his mysterious disappearance from a train.
This fragment only survived because Le Prince mailed it to his wife; the rest of his work was lost when his son destroyed it during a failed lawsuit against Edison.
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