the curoption and obscure origins of the silent film era- the lotus podcast script #31
The Missing Filmmaker and the Foundations of Cinema TW: Suicide, sexual harassment, exploitation, pedophilia, grooming, abuse, brief explanations of war-related deaths Louis Le Prince was a french artist and the renowned inventor of an early moving motion picture that could shoot a moving picture sequence using the single lens camera, skyrocketing the ideas of other late 19th century inventors to compete. Since this day in France in 1888, the world’s sources of entertainment suddenly changed, from live-action plays and puppet shows to the developing success of early cinema. “ Roundhay Garden Scene ” was produced by Le Prince that same year. But the Roundhay Garden Scene had more variety to offer the audience. The humble 2-second film captured a few 19th-century cheerful middle-class people walking around a patio at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, following this was the Horse in Motion sequence that more popularly defines the first-ever film. Although Le Prince seemed to have bi...