Roundhay Garden Scene
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Roundhay Garden Scene |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| Publishing year | 1888 |
| length | Unknown received: 0:02 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis Le Prince |
| camera | Louis Le Prince |
| cut | Louis Le Prince |
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Roundhay Garden Scene is an experimental short film by Louis Le Prince from 1888 and is considered the oldest film in film history .
Le Prince had been experimenting with the film for quite some time. Some pictures of a walking man were taken. However, the 16-lens camera turned out to be unusable, the films were blurred. For a new attempt, he used a single-lens camera and paper film .
It was filmed by Louis Le Prince in the Whitley family's garden in Oakwood Grange in Roundhay , a suburb of Leeds , possibly on October 14th and thus almost at the same time as or a few days before Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge . It shows the son of the cameraman Adolphe Le Prince, Mrs. Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around the garden laughing. 1888 is the latest possible creation date, since Mrs. Whitley, Le Prince's mother-in-law, died on October 24, 1888.
Today only a fragment of the film exists as a photographic copy. It takes a good two seconds.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Guinness-Red. (1955 ff.): Guinness Book of Records , Index: "Oldest Film".
- ↑ a b Oliver Das Gupta: How the oldest film in film history came about. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Culture, October 14, 2016
Web links
- Roundhay Garden Scene in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Roundhay Garden Scene in the online movie database
- Roundhay Garden Scene on YouTube