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''Man Walking Around a Corner'' was an early British film, shot in 
Leeds, England
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...
by Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequ ...
. According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary ''The First Film
''The First Film'' is a 2015 British documentary film about cinema pioneer Louis Le Prince, made by David Nicholas Wilkinson. It argues the case that Le Prince, rather than the Lumière brothers, was the true inventor of moving pictures, making ...
'' it is not film, but a series of photographs
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created ...
, 16 in all, each taken from one of the lens from Le Prince's camera. Le Prince went on to develop the one-lens camera and on the 14th October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image.
Production
The film lasts less than one second, taken on a 16-lens camera.Plot
A man walks around a corner in Leeds.History
The film was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the9th arrondissement of Paris
The 9th arrondissement of Paris (''IXe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.
In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as the neuvième (; "ninth").
The arrondissement, called Opéra, is loc ...
. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife.
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince vanished on a train from Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
to Paris on 16 September 1890.
See also
*1887 in film
The year 1887 in film involved some significant events.
Events
*Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.
*Louis Le Prince's 16-lens camera (LPCC Type-16) is made in the United States and the film ''Man Walking Around a C ...
* Brighton School (filmmaking) Brighton School ( fr.: ''L'école de Brighton'') was a loosely associated group of pioneering filmmakers active in the Brighton and Hove area of England from 1896 to 1910. It was mostly a series of shorts and early projects in films from the school ...
References
External links
* * 1887 films 1880s short films 1887 directorial debut films 1880s British films British silent short films British black-and-white films Louis Le Prince films Films shot in Leeds {{1880s-film-stub