Roundhay Garden Scene by Louis Le Prince (1888)

Coloring and fps boost.
Just for fun. :)

[FD_and_B]

The woman in black walking/dancing backwards died 10 days after this was filmed, which is how they confirmed that it was really from 1888. Pretty cool

[fennellrob]

The Story Behind The First Film Ever Made Will Blow Your Mind

The Roundhay Garden Scene. Considered the oldest film In existence has a few mysterious aspects worth mentioning. The original film was shot on October 14, 1888, and showed four people walking around in the Oakwood Grange in Leeds.
The black and white video is just 1.66 seconds long and comprises only 20 frames, but a new version of the scene uploaded by YouTuber Dennis Shiryaev is now in 4K quality with around 250 frames per second.

The Victorian-era film seems like it was shot using a modern camera thanks to artificial coloring and face restoration techniques.
One hundred thirty-two years ago, in 1888, four people were filmed walking around a garden in Leeds, England. The four people were Harriet Hartley, Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, and Sarah Whitley. They were in the house of the Whitleys, which is the in-laws of Adolphe Le Prince, the son of the French inventor Louis Le Prince the one who shot the film.

Harriet Hartley is said to be a family friend of Adolphe and his wife, Elizabeth. Ten days after the scene was shot, Sarah Whitley died at the age of 72. The four of them deliberately walked in a circle so to keep them inside the frame of the single-lens camera invented by Le Prince.
Louis Le Prince went missing in October 1890, two years after filming the Roundhay Garden scene, aboard a train between Dijon and Paris. Neither his body nor his luggage was ever found. Some say that he was assassinated by the American inventor Thomas Edison over the patent.
His son and wife appealed to the civil courts to appeal to them that Louis invented cinematography. Edison then filed a case against the American Mutoscope Company in which Adolphe became the witness for the defense.

But mysteriously, Adolphe was found shot dead on Fire Island, New York, two years after he testified in the suit in 1902. Finally, in 1908, Edison won the fight for the patent and was named the sole inventor of motion pictures in the United States.

[FamilyHistoriandude]

Hard to believe a few of my great great grandparents weren't even born yet when film was invented.

[Voodoomaria]

I was happy when I added this to my film library, the FIRST movie.

[claraelia]

Thank you for getting the coloured film ❤.

[italomix]

Amazing job! Love it. Only need to add color to the faces so get it perfect. But the color and fluid moves are astonishing. Congrats !

[thegodzilladude]

What a great story. I cried at the end and it has touched my heart. What a happy ending and when is the sequel?

[Shockwave_]

Can’t wait for the sequel to be 5 seconds long

[paigem.]

Legend says he’s still walking around in circles.

[the-one-above-all]

Now the film is filled with colors now

[michaelsandford]

They should of used a smartphone. Lol.

[LowPhoneBattery]

My favourite part was when the guy walked on the grass

[_Satkarthind_]

1888, the year it was started, the woman walking backwards died in old age in the age of 72 after 10 days the video was started, It was shot by french inventor Louis le prince, then in 1890, Louis went missing, the video name was roundhay garden scene, It showed 4 people walking around a garden in leeds, England, the 4 people were Harriet Hartley, adolphe le prince, Sarah Whitley.


Pt. 2 coming at 10 likes

[SadSpongebob]

fun fact if you dont know how many years ago 1888 was it was almost 200 years ago wow!

[anni.leticia]

imagine who blinked and lost half of the movie

[TheHighLevel.]

In the time when people still had modesty ^^

[itzamia]

How do they know what color everything is when they add it in? Obviously grass is green, but was the woman's dress really pink? Did the camera actually record pink even though everything was in black and white?

[Schnipp]

It's weird to think that Hitler's mother was in her third month of pregnancy when this was filmed.

[MeJ-user]

Where is the recorded video now? Like are they in museum today?

[allcapsdown]

i hate how smooth the static at the side of the screen is