Roundhay Garden Scene

History

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Roundhay Garden Scene is the title of an 1888 short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The 2 second long film was recorded with the Le Prince single-lens camera at 12 frames per second and is the earliest surviving film. It was taken in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain, possibly on October 14, 1888.