What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Louis Le Prince. Louis Aime August Le Prince came to Leeds in 1866 where he experimented in cinematography. In 1888 he patented a one-lens camera with which he filmed Leeds Bridge from this British Waterways building. These were probably the world's first successful moving pictures. Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.
Louis Le Prince was an inventor who conducted pioneering work in cinematography, likely capturing some of the world's earliest motion picture films in Leeds, England, in 1888.
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