Louis Le Prince

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (French: [lwi lə pʁɛ̃s]; 28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and inventor. He filmed what may have been the first moving picture sequences to use a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.^[1]

Le Prince was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously vanished from a train on 16 September 1890.^[1] His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found that had a photograph of a drowned man who could have been him.

In the years after his death, his son Adolphe was in a court. He was representing Louis, in a battle against Thomas Edison to name the true inventor of motion pictures.^[2] Edison won the case and a few months later, Adolphe was killed in a hunting accident.