I love the internet.
The first known motion picture(1888) is right here for you to see.
Halfway down explaining the site it says:
(i hate how websites dont have permalinks)
Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888, by Louis Le Prince
Photographic copy of paper prints from a film taken in the garden
of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb
of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain. Le Prince’s son, Adolphe, who appears in this picture, stated that it was shot in early October
1888 (he suggests 14 October) as it shows Mrs Sarah Whitley, Le Prince’s
mother-in-law, who died on 24 October that year. The other subjects
are Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. They are plainly having fun walking round in circles, keeping within the area framed by the camera.
My uptown neighbor, Daniel Liss, remixed this super short movie.
pouringdown: roundhay remix
I think Daniel’s remix is better than the original because it lets me see and think about everything going on. The woman and the man dancing. the other woman standing there in a huge dress.
This is why I love the videoblogging culture: consume, create, remix.
Original things only get better by it being shared…unlike our current culture which is more and more paralyzed by illogical, paranoid copyright law.
I wonder what old Louis Le Prince would think of videoblogging.
Here he was, a enthusiastic amateur, trying to visually record something happening in his backyard. He wanted this to exist so badly.
120 years later, we’re at the point where someone can record his life and have it seen by anyone on the planet, automatically archived for history. Our grandkids will know us so well.
I saw this in Rocketboom. Pretty cool. I wonder why the traditional mediums (like TV!!!!) haven’t been showing this clip everywhere. I guess another prove of the power of the internet, and videoblogs.
This video was so short that at first I thought it hadn’t downloaded fully, and then I only realized that there was dancing when I read it in the post. I’m a little taken aback to see such fun and enjoyment from these ancient videomakers because most old photos and videos I’ve seen have staunch, emotionless and usually expressionless faces.
Maybe it goes to show us that video makes it’s greatest leaps and bounds when someone steps out of the ordinary.
I also look forward to the day when I can show my children and grandchildren about my life and watch them giggle at my clothes and hairstyle and my speech and attitude, parts of me that will never be lost.