Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), is a 2 second documentary, shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, today, 126 years ago, on the 14th of October, 1888.
Filmed in the garden of Oakwood Grange; the home of Elizabeth Whitley Le Prince’s parents, Joseph and Sarah Whitley (the Whitley family house in England), in Roundhay (a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire), in Great Britain; the movie shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince’s son), Sarah Whitley, (Le Prince’s mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley (Le Prince’s father-in-law) and Harriet Hartley. The characters are shown walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera.
72 year old, Sarah Whitley, died ten days after the film was shot, on 24th October 1888.
Just watched it online on ‘Wikipedia’. Check it out when you can, it’s worth it. A good insight into early cinema through one of the earliest surviving motion pictures in existence.
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This is fascinating footage because it looks like they’re having a lot of fun. I don’t understand what’s going on, but I do know I want to be invited. 😉
Ha!Ha! I guess he would have ask them all to walk around, instead of posing for the camera, just to test his new invention. I can imagine how amazed they must have been to see a picture capture movement.
Of course, this was supposed to be his 2nd documentary, but the oldest surviving footage of a moving picture.