On October 14, 1888, a photographer named Louis Le Prince filmed the first movie ever made. Using a single-lens camera he'd invented, Le Prince captured footage of his son, his wife's parents, and a friend walking around outside a home in Leeds, England. At just 2.11 seconds long, the movie is no feature film, but "Roundhay Garden Scene" was groundbreaking. Then, a series of bizarre events marred the occasion. Just 10 days after Le Prince filmed the movie, his wife's mother died. And two years l

Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture camera in 1888. Then he vanished