The First Film (2015)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 3, 2015Release Date
Plot.
Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888.
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Cast & Crew.
David Wilkinson
Self - Presenter
Katharine Round
Herself
Bernard Atha
Self - Leeds City Council
Stephane Cornicard
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Tom Courtenay
Self - Yorkshire's Finest Actor
Tony Pierce-Roberts
Himself
Ronald Harwood
Himself
Tony Earnshaw
Self - Writer & Film Critic
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The First Film is a 2015 British documentary film about cinema pioneer Louis Le Prince, made by David Nicholas Wilkinson. It argues the case that Le Prince, rather than the Lumière brothers, was the true inventor of moving pictures, making Roundhay Garden Scene in Leeds in 1888. Le Prince mysteriously disappeared in 1890.Mark Kermode, film critic of The Guardian, described the film as "a flickering story that blends intrigue, industrial espionage, and possibly even murder".The film's world premiere was at the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival. It went on general release in the United States in September 2016.