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(contd) “The surviving sequences show several frames that overlap slightly at the edges. The chemicals in the original negatives would have melded together where they overlapped, making them difficult for Le Prince to put onto separate glass plates for projection.
Additionally, black borders all around the images and white frame numbers at the edges of the strips suggest that what survives today are inverted copies of the exposed paper negatives in their entirety – borders, annotations and all – rather than individual glass plates that could have been used in a projector.” (https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/man-movie-camera)
I’ll let Le Prince represent the many experimenters entranced by the idea of motion pictures - yet ultimately unsuccessful - and let him stand alongside the Englishman William Freise-Green, another intrepid experimentalist and inventor, and Charles-Emile Reynaud, the animation innovator and inventor of the Theatre Optique and other motion-picture gadgets.