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Louis Le Prince: The Inventor Who Vanished
In today's episode, we’re traveling back to the dawn of motion pictures and the story of a largely forgotten inventor who may have been on the verge of changing the world. In 1888, Louis Le Prince captured moving images with a camera of his own design, years before motion pictures became a worldwide phenomenon. But just as he was preparing to publicly demonstrate his invention, he apparently boarded a train in France — and vanished without a trace.
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