Roundhay Garden Scene

Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence, as noted by the Guinness Book of Records.

It features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley in the garden, walking around. Note that Sarah is walking backwards as she turns around, and that Josephs coat tails are flying as he also is turning. Sarah Whitley was Le Princes motherinlaw, being the mother of his wife, Elizabeth. Sarah Whitley died ten days after the scene was taken.In 1930 the National Science Museum NSM, London, produced photographic copies of surviving parts from the 1888 filmstrip. This sequence was recorded on an 1885 Eastman Kodak paper base photographic film through Le Princes singlelens combi cameraprojector. Le Princes son, Adolphe, stated that the Roundhay Garden movie was shot atframess and a second movie, Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, atframess, however the later digital remastered version of Roundhay Garden produced by the National Media Museum, Bradford, which contains 52 frames, runs at 24.64 framess, a modern cinematographic frame rate, so it plays in only 2.11 seconds. The National Science Museum copy hasframes atframess, this produces a run time of 1.66 seconds. ........

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