lostcrimeprincess:

What you are seeing the oldest surviving film in existence. This film is called “Roundhay Garden Scene” and was shot on the single lens motion camera invented by Louis le Prince. 

The scene shows Louis’s son Adolphe, Louis’s in-laws, Sarah and Jospeh Whitley, and Annie Hartley walking around the Roundhay garden. Sarah Whitley died 10 days after this scene was filmed. 

 While many credit Edison with inventing the motion camera Le Prince actually invented one first, though he was never credited with the idea as he permits never went through and were lost. 

Louis le Prince disappeared on September 16, 1880 after getting on a train in Dijon, France. His body nor belongings have never been found and many wonder what happened to who some call “the father of cinematography”