Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 Agustus 1841 – menghilang 16 September 1890) adalah seorang penemu asal Prancis yang menembakkan gambar bergerak pertama pada kertas film menggunakan kamera lensa tunggal.[1][2] Dia telah dikenal sebagai "Bapak Sinematografi" sejak tahun 1930.[3]
Seorang asal Prancis yang juga bekerja di Inggris dan Amerika Serikat, Le Prince melakukan terobosan karyanya pada tahun 1888 di kota Leeds, West Yorkshire, Inggris.[4]
^THE "FATHER" OF KINEMATOGRAPHY: LEEDS MEMORIAL PIONEER WORK IN ENGLAND Our Special Correspondent. The Manchester Guardian (1901–1959), Manchester, England 13 Dec 1930: 19.
^"Pioneers of Early Cinema: 1, AIMÉ AUGUSTIN LE PRINCE (1841-1890?)"(PDF). www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk. hlm. 2. Diakses tanggal 2012-11-25. he developed a single-lens camera which he used to make moving picture sequences at the Whitley family home in Roundhay and of Leeds Bridge in October 1888. ... it has been claimed that a photograph of a drowned man in the Paris police archives is that of Le Prince.
Le Prince, inventeur et artiste, précurseur du cinéma by Jean-Jacques Aulas and Jacques Pfend (in Revue d'Histoire du Cinéma N°32, December 2000, p. 9) ISSN 0769-0959
The Indispensable Murder Book, edited by Joseph Henry Jackson (New York: The Book Society, 1951), pp. 437–464, "The Red and White Girdle" by Christopher Morley. This deals with the murder of Gouffe, and shows the intense study of that trunk murder in 1889–90.
The facts concerning the life and death of LOUIS AIME AUGUSTIN LEPRINCE, pioneer of the moving pîcture and his family, by Jacques Pfend (Sarreguemines/57200/France) 2014.
Leodis – a photographic archive of Leeds. Leeds Library & Information Service. Allows search for key terms such as Louis Le Prince or Leeds Bridge or Bridge End or Hick Brothers or Auto Express (workshop site), etc.