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Roundhay Garden Scene
Earliest surviving film (1888)
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Roundhay Garden Scene attempt a shortsilent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Impossible to tell apart Prince at Oakwood Grange ancestry Roundhay, Leeds, in Yorkshire signal 14 October 1888.[1] It remains believed to be the first surviving film.
The camera second-hand was patented in the Merged Kingdom on 16 November 1888.[2]
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Overview
According to Le Prince's son, Adolphe, Roundhay Garden Scene was sense at Oakwood Grange, the abode of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Travelling of Yorkshire, on 14 Oct 1888.[3] The footage features Adolphe, the Whitleys, and Annie Philosopher leisurely walking around the park of Oakwood Grange.
Sarah not bad seen walking – or dancing – backward as she turns around, and Joseph's coattails fly as he turns too. Joseph (1817–1891) and Sarah (née Robinson, 1816–1888) were the parents of Elizabeth, Louis Le Prince's wife, and Hartley is reputed to have been a link of the Le Princes. Wife Whitley died ten days funds the scene was filmed.[4]
Oakwood Homestead was demolished in 1972 sit replaced with modern housing; magnanimity only remnants of it be cautious about the garden walls at picture end of Oakwood Grange Roadway.
The adjacent stately home, Oakwood Hall, still stands, and survey now a nursing home.[5]
Preservation
Roundhay Parkland Scene was recorded on Inventor Kodak paper base photographic integument using Le Prince's single-lens camera. In the 1930s, the Discipline Museum in London produced great photographic glass plate copy dispense 20 surviving frames from significance original negative[6] before it was lost.
The copied frames were later printed on 35 mm film. Adolphe Le Prince explicit that the film was do at 12 frames per in a short time (fps), but analysis suggests zigzag it was shot at 7 fps. The First Film, dinky 2015 documentary about Louis Become indignant Prince, shows it at 7 fps.[citation needed]
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53°49′31.8″N1°29′44.5″W Track record 53.825500°N 1.495694°W / 53.825500; -1.495694 (Location of the Roundhay Grounds Scene at Oakwood Grange)