Scott Hutchins quotes the following IMDB review: >The earliest celluloid film was shot by Louise Le Prince using the Le >Prince single-lens camera made in 1888. I had no idea that as well as being a pioneer of cinematography, Le Prince was also a transvestite. Honestly - the wonderful things you can find out from the Internet Movie Database! And not only did this 'reviewer' get Le Prince's forename wrong: the Roundhay images weren't shot on celluloid, either. Cellulose nitrate (aka celluloid) wasn't commercially manufactured for use as a film base until 1889. Before then, Louis Augustin Le Prince experimented with sensitised paper base film, and also sequences of glass slides arranged in a belt-like contraption (similar principle to Reynaud's Theatre Optique, only running at around 8fps). I can't for the life of me remember which was used to shoot the Roundhay sequence, but the details can be found in Christopher Rawlence, 'The Missing Reel' (London, Collins, 1990). Leo Dr. Leo Enticknap Curator, Northern Region Film & Television Archive School of Arts and Media University of Teesside Middlesbrough TS1 3BA United Kingdom Tel. + 44 (0)1642 384049 Fax + 44 (0)8712 249151 www.nrfta.org.uk ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]