Man Walking Around a Corner
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Man Walking Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887.[1] It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film indeed, the work is not a film, but a series of photographs, 16 in total,[2] each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Le Prince's camera.[3] Le Prince went on to develop the one-lens camera,[4] and on 14 October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image.[5] The total result of the work lasts less than one second.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fischer, Paul (5 April 2022). The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-34866-4.
- ^ Tucker, Thomas Deane (14 February 2020). Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0930-8.
- ^ "Le Prince 16 lens Camera". Jonathan Silent Film Collection. 1 January 1886.
- ^ Kelly, Erin (6 February 2024). "The Story Of History's Very First Movie — And How Thomas Edison May Have Sabotaged The Man Behind It". All That's Interesting. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ "Louis Le Prince, who shot the world's first film in Leeds". BBC News. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ "Man Walking Around A Corner". WikiMedia.
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