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Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England on 14 October 1888.[1] It is believed to be the oldest surviving film.[2][3] The camera used was patented in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1888.[4]

Roundhay Garden Scene
The film
Directed by	Louis Le Prince
Starring	Annie Hartley Adolphe Le Prince Joseph Whitley Sarah Whitley
Release date	14 October 1888; 134 years ago (1888-10-14)
Running time	1.66 seconds
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent

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, Northern England, on 14 October 1888.[5] The footage features Adolphe, his mother-in-law Sarah Whitley (née Robinson, 1816–1888), his father-in-law Joseph Whitley (1817–1891) and Annie Hartley in the garden of Oakwood Grange, leisurely walking around the garden of the premises. Sarah is seen walking – or dancing – backward as she turns around, and Joseph's coattails are seen flying as he also is turning. Joseph and Sarah Whitley were the parents of Le Prince's wife, Elizabeth. Annie Hartley is believed to be a friend of Le Prince and his wife. Sarah Whitley died ten days after the scene was filmed.[6]

Oakwood Grange was demolished in 1972 and was replaced with modern housing; the only remains of it are the garden walls at the end of Oakwood Grange Lane. The adjacent stately home, Oakwood Hall, still remains as a nursing home.[7]

Preservation

Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded on Eastman Kodak paper base photographic film using Le Prince's single-lens camera. In the 1930s, the National Science Museum (NSM) in London produced a photographic glass plate copy of 20 surviving frames from the original negative,[8] before it was lost. The copied frames were later printed on 35 mm film. Adolphe stated that the Roundhay Garden sequence was shot at 12 frames per second (fps) and a second film, Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, at 20 fps; however, this is not borne out by analysis of the film, which suggests a frame rate of 7 fps for both, which was the speed of reproduction used in the 2015 documentary film about Le Prince, The First Film.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Passage de Vénus, 1874 series of photographs
• Silent film

References

External links

• Roundhay Garden Scene at IMDb
• Roundhay Garden Scene is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• Roundhay Garden Scene on YouTube
• 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

На других языках

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- [en] Roundhay Garden Scene

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[ru] Сцена в саду Раундхэй

«Сцена в саду Раундхэй» (англ. Roundhay Garden Scene) — немой английский короткометражный киноролик Луи Лепренса, самый первый известный кинофильм в истории кинематографа, датированный 14 октября 1888 года[1]. Снят за полтора года до первого фильма кинетографа «Приветствие Диксона».

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