Louis Le Prince

Louis Le Prince was a French-American inventor and cinematographer who developed one of the earliest motion-picture cameras, a single-lens device that used a strip of paper film. He is credited with filming Roundhay Garden Scene and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge in 1888, work that came before the film demonstrations of Edison and the Lumiere brothers. Le Prince disappeared without trace in September 1890, before he could publicly exhibit his invention, and was declared dead seven years later, a disappearance that kept his camera from shaping the commercial cinema industry that followed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/