{"id":14331,"date":"2017-10-16T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14331"},"modified":"2017-10-16T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T08:31:07","slug":"celebration-of-cinema-pioneer-louis-le-prince-at-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/celebration-of-cinema-pioneer-louis-le-prince-at-leeds","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of cinema pioneer Louis Le Prince at Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The film pioneer Louis Le Prince will be celebrated in Leeds, by the unveiling of a special plaque on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November. The cinema pioneer is recognised for filming the first moving images in the world in Leeds, in 1888. His ground-breaking work are two moving picture sequences- the first is &#8216;Roundhay Garden Scene&#8217; and the other a Leeds Bridge scene, using his single-lens camera. The first sequence was filmed at Oakwood Grange. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film existing today.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The unveiling of the plaque will be by a celebrity guest from Leeds International Film Festival. The original plaque was on the site of the former workshop of Le Prince in Leeds. It will be reinstated in a part of Leeds Beckett city campus, at its original home of Broadcasting Palace, on 2 November. Laurie Snyder, who is a descendent of Le Prince, will officially open a free exhibition about Louis Le Prince. It will display images and artefacts related to the film pioneer and his years in Leeds. From 2<sup>nd<\/sup> to 16<sup>th<\/sup> November, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk\/news\/celebration-of-film-pioneer-1-8802018\">free exhibition<\/a> will be open to public at Leeds Central Library. According to the Professor of Leeds Beckett University, Robert Shail, Louis Le Prince was a pioneer who helped to make cinema a possibility and to brig the original plaque back to its home, the site of his former workshop, is thrilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film pioneer Louis Le Prince will be celebrated in Leeds, by the unveiling of a special plaque on 2nd November. The cinema pioneer is recognised for filming the first moving images in the world in Leeds, in 1888. His ground-breaking work are two moving picture sequences- the first is &#8216;Roundhay Garden Scene&#8217; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14332,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions\/14332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}