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Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene in Leeds in 1888. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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The oldest surviving film is about two seconds long

Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene in Leeds in 1888

Roundhay Garden Scene was filmed by Louis Le Prince in October 1888 in Leeds, England, and is the oldest surviving motion picture. It runs for only about two seconds. Le Prince vanished in 1890 while travelling in France and was never found.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene in Leeds in 1888. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.