I did, and you know what, I found out that it was from the earliest known inventor of the motion picture camera, 'Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince'!
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Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince (1841 - 1890)[/caption]You see in 1888, 'Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince' would make his ground breaking camera... During this time the French inventor, who was working in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, would end up filming the first two films of any variety with the, 'Roundhay Garden Scene' which was filmed on October 1888 and, 'Leeds Bridge' using his original and updated versions of his single lens camera in the, 'Mk' series of cameras that he had invented...
In the end though, I am sad to say, but this amazing inventor never really got the chance to make a major name for himself, you see, when he had started demonstrating his amazing new invention due to the fact that when he was on a train in 1890 he ended up disappearing luggage and all from the train... What happened to him?
Well no one really knows for sure, it has been said that Thomas Edison was involved in his murder, due to some trouble that Edison and the Le Prince family would have decades later (which we will discuss in a moment.)
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One of the rumors in the death of, 'Louis Le Prince' is that, 'Thomas Edison' killed him to steal his patent![/caption]It has also been said that he may have taken off as well... In the end though, the most prevailing theory is that he some how was murdered or committed suicide due to the fact that an old photo surfaced that could have been Le Prince and looks as though he had drowned...
Sadly though, this would not be the last time that Le Prince would be put in the middle of a, 'Hollywood Scandal' even if it was posthumously...
You see there was some confusion and a court battle involving Le Prince's invention in regards to Edison's claims that he was the first and sole inventor of the motion picture camera... A ruling that would rule in favor of Edison...
In the end though, the court ruling in that case was over turned, and in 1930, Le Prince would finally have the recognition he so richly deserved when he would finally be heralded as, 'The Father Of Cinematography'!
In the end, Le Prince may not have been recognized for his contributions to the world of Hollywood, and what happened to him may have been the first true Hollywood mystery, but in the end he can finally rest in peace with knowledge that this master of movies is recognized for the genius that he truly was!
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