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

Louis Le Prince's daughter pictured admiring her father's invention, a single lens camera, in 1915. (Getty: Hulton Archive)

When it comes to motion pictures, the Lumière brothers and Thomas Edison have gone down in history for their cinematic inventions.

But there's a lesser-known figure, a man described as the forgotten father of cinema, who should have been more in focus.

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