The Shadow Traps
In October 1888, the French inventor Louis Le Prince shot what many people now believe to be the world’s first films. On the 16th September 1890, and just before he was due to sail to New York to demonstrate his films in public for the first time, Le Prince boarded the Dijon to Paris train and was never seen again. Brought to you by Buzzsprout and Open Space Books, The Shadow Traps podcasts will tell the story of Le Prince, his life, his films and his mysterious disappearance. It is a mystery story, an exploration of invention and obsession and a love letter to film. To find out more and support this podcast, go to www.patreon.com/theshadowtraps
Podcasting since 2019 • 31 episodes
The Shadow Traps
Latest Episodes
Episode 28. Sheep-Jumping as seen through Several Lenses.
While Le Prince works on his cameras, Lizzie is offered an opportunity that might change both their lives. What will now become of Le Prince's experiments? Should he show them to Thomas Edison? We reach 1886 and see that Le Prince is finally re...
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Episode 27. The New York Cockle and Burn Years
This episode tries to find an answer to the question 'What exactly did Le Prince achieve with his experiments in New York in the mid-1880's?' To help with this, we look at witness statements and descriptions of the work allegedly done and attem...
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Episode 27
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Episode 26. The Man in Black and the Silly from Posillipo
What do blue aliens from the moon Pandora and a painting by Marcel Duchamp have in common? We look at the work of Etienne-Jules Marey, another inventor who was capturing motion while Le Prince was experimenting in New York.
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Episode 25. The Crafty Fox
A look at six cards from the Le Prince children to their grandparents. What can we learn about the children from them - and is there anything else they might tell us?
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Episode 24. An Impression of Life (with its reliefs and its hollows)
We take another look at Le Prince's American cameras and explore the possibility that he planning on capturing 3D motion pictures. And if that were the case - what were the precedents which might have convinced him that this was a possibility i...
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