The son of French inventor Louis Le Prince; at sixteen he crossed the frame in Roundhay Garden Scene, and later served as the American plaintiff in Equity 6928, the suit that challenged Thomas Edison's motion-picture patents.
Child of · 1872
Adolphe was born in Paris in 1872, the eldest son of Louis Le Prince and Elizabeth Whitley. Sixteen years later he appears in Roundhay Garden Scene, crossing the frame between his grandparents Sarah and Joseph Whitley and the family friend Annie Hartley. He kept the cameras and paper film after his father's 1890 disappearance and carried the patent claim to New York.
Child of · 1872
Adolphe was born in Paris in 1872, the eldest son of Louis Le Prince and Elizabeth Whitley. Sixteen years later he appears in Roundhay Garden Scene, crossing the frame between his grandparents Sarah and Joseph Whitley and the family friend Annie Hartley. He kept the cameras and paper film after his father's 1890 disappearance and carried the patent claim to New York.
Performed in · 1888
Aged sixteen, Adolphe crossed the centre of his grandparents' garden during his father's 14 October 1888 camera test — the fourth walker in the circle, and the only one of the film's featured four still visible in the surviving frames without another figure obscuring him.