The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures By Paul Fischer

Also Described As

The story of the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it.

In 1888, the French artist and inventor Louis Le Prince recorded the first ever moving image on film using a single lens camera of his own design. It featured members of his family moving about the garden of their home and can still be seen online.

In September 1890 he paid a visit to his brother in Dijon, France, intending after that to join his wife and family in New York where they lived. On 16th September he caught a train to Paris. He never arrived in Paris, and was never seen again.

One month later, Thomas Edison announced his own invention of a camera which could take moving pictures. At a time of fierce competition among inventors to obtain patents for their own products, the mystery of the disappearance of Louis le Prince has never been solved.

Read by Paterson Joseph

Duration

15 minutes

18 minutes

Genre

Culture And The Media
Factual
Arts

Station

Radio 4

Episodes

Episode	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	20220411		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
02	20220412		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
03	20220413		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
04	20220414		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
05	20220415		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
OMNI	20250809	20250810 (BBC7)	Omnibus of five parts, abridged in by Libby Spurrier. Producer: Celia de Wolff A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2022. The story of the invention of the motion picture and Louis Le Prince, the mysterious man behind it. Read by Paterson Joseph. How the motion picture was invented by the mysterious man behind it. [LISTEN NOW]

Episodes

Episode	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	20220411		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
02	20220412		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
03	20220413		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
04	20220414		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
05	20220415		Produced by Celia de Wolff Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
OMNI	20250809	20250810 (BBC7)	Omnibus of five parts, abridged in by Libby Spurrier. Producer: Celia de Wolff A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2022. The story of the invention of the motion picture and Louis Le Prince, the mysterious man behind it. Read by Paterson Joseph. How the motion picture was invented by the mysterious man behind it. [LISTEN NOW]