Man Walking Around a Corner

Man Walking Around a Corner (1887)

The last remaining production of Le Prince's LPCC Type-16 (16-lens camera) is part of a gelatine film shot in 32 images/second, and pictures a man walking around a corner. Le Prince, who was in Leeds (UK) at that time, sent these images to his wife in New York City in a letter dated 18 August 1887.

Date of release
1887-08-18
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (97)
Runtime
1m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

Man Walking Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887. It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film indeed, the work is not a film, but a series of photographs, 16 in total, each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Le Prince's camera. Le Prince went on to develop the one-lens camera, and on 14 October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image. The total result of the work lasts less than two seconds.

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