The Inventor Who Vanished: Crash Course Recess #1
We interrupt your normally scheduled Crash Course content to bring a new and exciting project we're calling 'Recess'! These short, fully animated episodes are going to pop up a few times a...
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On September 16, 1890, a man boarded a train in Dijon, France, waved goodbye to his brother, and headed for Paris. He was carrying one of the greatest inventions of the age – the world’s first motion picture camera technology… two years before it was developed by anyone else. In fact, our man was on his way to New York to complete his patent and unveil his discovery to the world. But when the train pulled into the station in Paris, the man was nowhere to be found. He – and his invention – had disappeared without a trace. [Intro Music Plays] Louis Le Prince was an artist and inventor, a painter and a photographer, who entered the arms race to create the first movie camera in the 1880s. His initial attempt, completed in 1886, was a camera with 16 di...
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On September 16, 1890, a man boarded a train in Dijon, France, waved goodbye to his brother, and headed for Paris. He was carrying one of the greatest inventions of the age – the world’s first motion picture camera technology… two years before it was developed by anyone else. In fact, our man was on his way to New York to complete his patent and unveil his discovery to the world. But when the train pulled into the station in Paris, the man was nowhere to be found. He – and his invention – had disappeared without a trace. [Intro Music Plays] Louis Le Prince was an artist and inventor, a painter and a photographer, who entered the arms race to create the first movie camera in the 1880s. His initial attempt, completed in 1886, was a camera with 16 di...
