Officially, the cinema, such as we know it today, began there in 1895, but the first film ever released in a few years before that date. In 1888 a Frenchman living in England, by the name of Louis Le Prince, made the first film in the world "Roundhay Garden Scene". He is probably the most important person in the history of film-making, as Le Prince was the man responsible of the very first recording of motion images on film. A dedicated inventor, Louis Le Prince started experimenting with film as early as 1881 and by 1886 he was almost ready to take the big step, as he built his first successful movie camera. 14-Oct-1888, Le Prince captured on film what would become the world's first motion picture: a family scene in a garden of Roundhay, Leeds, during his time in England. Cinema was born in that garden.
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The whole movie is exactly 1.66 seconds, and shows the viewer a walk in the garden a few people. Among the people imprinted on the frame there is the son of the director, the director mother-in-law with her husband, as well as a good friend of the family. tragically, he died before making his first public demonstration, and was not alive when the legal battles over the patent of the invention began. The mysterious death of Le Prince put him out of the picture and by the next decade. Who knows, maybe the world would be able to see more of his films and the cinema today would have been a couple of steps further than it is.
