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Roundhay Garden Scene

1888 · 1 min

A fleeting, flickering glimpse of people laughing and walking in a garden, like a ghostly home movie from the dawn of cinema.

Directed by
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sarah Whitley
Overview
The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken on paper-based photographic film in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince’s son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince’s mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. Roundhay Garden Scene is often associated with a recording speed of around 12 frames per second and runs for about 2 to 3 seconds.

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Directed by
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sarah Whitley
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • family
  • art
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • true story
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism10
Romance0
Tension0
Darkness0
Complexity1
Emotional weight2

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Starring
Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sarah Whitley, Annie Hartley
Runtime
1 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
No Language

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