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Louis le Prince shot the first film – but did he invent movies?

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imageLouis Le Prince's 1888 frames of Leeds Bridge.

The spookiest feeling I have had, in several decades of looking at old silent films, is watching an old lady dressed in bonnet and long dress, shuffling around the driveway of a house in Roundhay, Leeds.

The woman is Sarah Robinson Whitley, who was born almost 200 years ago, in 1816. I was suddenly...

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