New documentary explores world’s first movie maker
Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers have been hailed the pioneers of film and cinema, but what if they weren’t actually the first to capture moving images? What if an unknown Frenchman working in England actually beat them to it? Jonathan Vigliotti tells us the little known story of Louis Le Prince, a filmmaker and inventor, whose mysterious disappearance in Paris meant the world never got to see his vision for the future.