Roundhay Garden Scene

Roundhay Garden Scene (french: Une scène au jardin de Roundhay) is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Yorkshire, England on 14 October 1888.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It is believed to be the oldest surviving film. The camera used was patented in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1888.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Cast

• Annie Hartley (credited as Harriet Hartley; 1873 – 31 March 1898)
• Adolphe Le Prince (Template:Circa – 20 August 1901)
• Joseph Whitley (17 October 1816 – 12 January 1891)
• Sarah Whitley (Template:Circa – 24 October 1888)

Overview

According to Le Prince's son, Adolphe, Roundhay Garden Scene was made at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 14 October 1888.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The footage features Adolphe, the Whitleys, and Annie Hartley leisurely walking around the garden of Oakwood Grange. Sarah is seen walkingTemplate:Sndor dancingTemplate:Sndbackward as she turns around, and Joseph's coattails fly as he turns also. Joseph (1817–1891) and Sarah (née Robinson, 1816–1888) were the parents of Elizabeth, Louis Le Prince's wife, and Hartley is believed to have been a friend of the Le Princes. Sarah Whitley died ten days after the scene was filmed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Oakwood Grange was demolished in 1972 and replaced with modern housing; the only remnants of it are the garden walls at the end of Oakwood Grange Lane. The adjacent stately home, Oakwood Hall, still stands, and is now a nursing home.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Preservation

Oakwood Hall is near the filming site of Roundhay Garden Scene

Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded on Eastman Kodak paper base photographic film using Le Prince's single-lens camera. In the 1930s, the Science Museum in London produced a photographic glass plate copy of 20 surviving frames from the original negative<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> before it was lost. The copied frames were later printed on 35 mm film. Adolphe Le Prince stated that the film was shot at 12 frames per second (fps), but analysis suggests that it was shot at 7 fps. The First Film, a 2015 documentary about Louis Le Prince, shows it at 7 fps.Template:Citation needed

See also

• Passage de Vénus, a 1874 series of photographs often considered the first film

External links

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• Template:Internet Archive film
• Roundhay Garden Scene on YouTube
• Roundhay Garden Scene on RetroFlix
• Denis Shiryaev's 60 fps color version on YouTube
• Louis Le Prince Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television University of Leeds. (The university is near to the site of Le Prince's former workshop which was located at the junction of Woodhouse Lane and Blackman Lane.)
• St John's of Roundhay. Details of memorial for Sarah (died 24 October 1888) and Joseph Whitley (died 12 January 1891) at St John's Church, Roundhay, Leeds. (map), Monumental Inscriptions (II1) at St. John's Church, Roundhay, Leeds