Louis Le Prince was an early cinematographer who's credited with being the first person to create moving pictures, despite popular belief. Although that honor usually goes to Thomas Edison or the Lumiere Brothers, Le Prince's earliest work predates all of their films by over half a decade. He grew up with a background in art and established the Leeds Technical School of Art, before his interests moved to early cinematic innovations. The device he created was known as a single-lens cine camera, and it used paper-backed stripping film to record a moving picture of his garden in Leeds. Mysteriously, his achievements weren't recognized because he went missing before a scheduled public briefing about his technology. I'm surprised that there's still no explanation to where Le Prince disappeared to and nobody ever found his body, but I assume that back in his day it was a lot harder to find a missing person, or just a lot easier to cover up a murder.
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