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Louis Le Prince

1841 - 1890

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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene. He was possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film. He has been credited as the "Father of Cinematography", but his work did not influence the commercial development of cinema—owing largely to the events surrounding his 1890 disappearance. A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince's motion-picture experiments culminated in 1888 in Leeds, England. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Le Prince is the 142nd most popular inventor (down from 102nd in 2019), the 1,775th most popular biography from France (down from 1,212th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Le Prince ranks 142 out of 426. Before him are Hugo Schmeisser, Zénobe Gramme, Elias Howe, Mary the Jewess, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, and Taiichi Ohno. After him are Cornelis Drebbel, John Kay, Robert Stirling, Peter Cooper, Siegfried Marcus, and Richard Jordan Gatling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Louis Le Prince ranks 27. Before him are Emmanuel Chabrier, Ernst Schröder, Victor D'Hondt, Clément Ader, Hermann Carl Vogel, and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev. After him are Philipp Mainländer, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Theodor von Oppolzer, and Julius von Payer. Among people deceased in 1890, Louis Le Prince ranks 26. Before him are Jyotirao Phule, Gottfried Keller, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Lorenz von Stein, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, and Spotted Elk. After him are Christopher Latham Sholes, William Gull, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, and Ivan Mažuranić.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Le Prince ranks 1,775 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (1756), Maurice Herzog (1919), Henri de Régnier (1864), Edmond François Valentin About (1828), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), and Zénaïde Bonaparte (1801). After him are Recceswinth (620), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898), Frank Darabont (1959), Felix of Valois (1127), Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (1643), and Auguste Maquet (1813).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Le Prince ranks 21. Before him are Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Clément Ader (1841), André Michelin (1853), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), and Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753). After him are Henri Giffard (1825), Joseph Monier (1823), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), Émile Baudot (1845), and Georges Claude (1870).

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