{{Short description|1887 film by Louis Le Prince}} {{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = Man Walking Around a Corner | image = Man Walking Around A Corner.gif | caption = The entire film animated | director = Louis Le Prince | producer = Louis Le Prince | writer = | narrator = | starring = An unknown man | cinematography = Louis Le Prince | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1887|12|12}} | runtime = 2 seconds | country = United Kingdom | language = Silent }} thumb|right|''Man Walking Around a Corner'' '''''Man Walking Around a Corner''''' is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fischer |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mnHqDwAAQBAJ&dq=Man+Walking+Around+a+Corner+Le+Prince+1887&pg=PT158 |title=The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies |date=2022-04-05 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0-571-34866-4 |language=en}}</ref> It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary ''The First Film'' indeed, the work is not a film, but a series of photographs, 16 in total,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tucker |first=Thomas Deane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6MxEAAAQBAJ&dq=Man+Walking+Around+a+Corner+Le+Prince&pg=PA29 |title=Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film |date=2020-02-14 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-0930-8 |language=en}}</ref> each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Le Prince's camera.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1886-01-01 |title=Le Prince 16 lens Camera |url=https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/jonathan_silent_film/1564 |journal=Jonathan Silent Film Collection}}</ref> Le Prince went on to develop the one-lens camera,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Erin |date=2024-02-06 |title=The Story Of History's Very First Movie — And How Thomas Edison May Have Sabotaged The Man Behind It |url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-movie-ever-made |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=All That's Interesting |language=en-US}}</ref> and on 14 October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-06-22 |title=Louis Le Prince, who shot the world's first film in Leeds |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33198686 |access-date=2024-06-07 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> The total result of the work lasts less than two seconds.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Man Walking Around A Corner|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Man_Walking_Around_A_Corner.gif|website=WikiMedia}}</ref>
==See also== * 1887 in film * Brighton School (filmmaking)
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==External links== {{cc}} *{{YouTube|YY_-GNKWL3c|Man Walking Around a Corner (1887)}} *{{IMDb title|2075247}} Category:1880s photographs Category:1887 films Category:1887 short films Category:1887 directorial debut films Category:1880s British films Category:Louis Le Prince films Category:Precursors of film {{1880s-film-stub}}