The First Film

In 1888, Louis Le Prince produced the world's first films in Leeds, England, using patented cameras in both America and the UK. He perfected his projection machine and planned to demonstrate it to the American public. However, he disappeared on a train to Paris in 1890, and his body was never found, leaving no one to dispute his claim of inventing the first moving image camera. As a result, Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers were credited with pioneering film, while Le Prince's work was forgotten.