Who Really Was First?

Who was Louis Le Prince? What was his contribution to cinema? After reading about him, what surprises you about reading this article?

    Louis Le Prince was a French photographer who lived in England, having established the Leeds Technical School of Art. He is now considered the father of cinema, having been fascinated with the development of cinematic technology. His contribution to cinema was the Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera and two of his most famous films that predated Edison and Dickson by a year. Somethings that surprised me while reading the article was how he patented his 16-lens Camera but hadn't been able to patent his Cine Camera.