Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (French: [lwi lə pʁɛ̃s]; 28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and inventor. He filmed what may have been the first moving picture sequences to use a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.[1]
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Born | Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince 28 August 1841 Metz, France |
Disappeared | 16 September 1890 Dijon, France | (aged 49)
Status | Vanished |
Occupation(s) | Artist, Art teacher, inventor, |
Spouse | Elizabeth Le Prince-Whitley (m. 1869–Expression error: Unrecognized word "error".) |
Le Prince was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously vanished from a train on 16 September 1890.[1] His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found that had a photograph of a drowned man who could have been him.
In the years after his death, his son Adolphe was in a court. He was representing Louis, in a battle against Thomas Edison to name the true inventor of motion pictures.[2] Edison won the case and a few months later, Adolphe was killed in a hunting accident.