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Man Walking Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887[1] According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film indeed, the work is not a film, but a series of photographs 16 in all,[2] each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Le Prince's camera.[3] Le Prince went on to develop the one-lens camera[4] and on the 14th October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image.[5]

Man Walking Around A Corner

The total result of the work lasts less than one second.[6]

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  1. ^ Fischer, Paul (2022-04-05). The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-34866-4.
  2. ^ Tucker, Thomas Deane (2020-02-14). Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0930-8.
  3. ^ "Le Prince 16 lens Camera". Jonathan Silent Film Collection. 1886-01-01.
  4. ^ Kelly, Erin (2024-02-06). "The Story Of History's Very First Movie — And How Thomas Edison May Have Sabotaged The Man Behind It". All That's Interesting. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  5. ^ "Louis Le Prince, who shot the world's first film in Leeds". BBC News. 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  6. ^ "Man Walking Around A Corner". WikiMedia.

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