Man Walking Around a Corner (1887)

Directed by

Louis Le Prince

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 93 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early photographic sequence from 1887. It shows a man walking around a street corner in Paris. The piece lasts less than two seconds and consists of 16 separate photographs.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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