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The last of the four known Le Prince film that survived till our days is Man Walking Around the Corner, a a title that pretty much lets you know everything you'll see. This few frames have received much less attention than the other three Le Prince films, and therefore is know to less people despite being available at Youtube and other pages in the internet. This lack of attention is a shame, specially because it may be responsible of the fact that this is the only Le Prince film that has not enjoyed a professional restoration. This causes that the only way to watch the film is in a very blurry copy and not the quite clear images available for the other three films are missing here. Every copy I've seen is dark and is hard to notice what happens in the screen, while the shadow of a person walking is noticeable to be honest you can't quite see if it is turning around in a corner or just going straight, I'll take the title of the film as true and suppose the corner is indeed there, but it would be nice to see it clearly Let's hope a professional restoration of the film is made shortly so we can appreciate this early film correctly, it shouldn't be a lot of work, after all the movie is just a few seconds long and it would be worthy considering this man invented cinema and this is one of the earliest works in film history.

Although often referred to as such, this two-second clip from 1887 by Louis le Prince is not an actual film at all. While in some ways it could be considered animation, the manner in which it was shot is important as to its qualification. Like the Eadweard Muybridge studies, "Man Walking Around the Corner" is compiled of a frame sequence of sixteen well-shot photographs to create the illusion of movement. The true first celluloid film is Le Prince's own "Roundhay Garden Scene" (1888), recorded on real motion picture filmstock, followed by "Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge" of the same year. As stated by reviewer boblipton, this film is then available as a listing on IMDb only as an early attempt to start the development of motion pictures, as an artifact of the preliminary stages of the medium.

Since I last edited/wrote this review, the problem concerning the picture quality of this frame sequence has been addressed. As other IMDb reviewers state, the two second short is "needing a restoration", etc, and rightfully so. This Louis le Prince film has been available for many years in a blurry, unwatchable format, which hardly allows us to appreciate the movement created by the photography or the details in the setting. The film is now rendered in a much crisper, nicer HD copy on YouTube--a huge improvement over the other one--and looks just as restored as "Roundhay Garden Scene" and "Traffic Crossing the Leeds Bridge". It's nice to see it looking much more cleaned up, and if you are interested this copy is the recommendable one.

The title tells us what to expect, although it remains somewhat inaccurate since the man appears to be walking across the corner, rather than around it. This is a minor thing to point out, however, and the movement is well-shot, although the identity of the man walking seems to be unknown.

Stuff like this happends all the time (walking around a corner). What people probably didn't notice: the pigeon peaking from the storm drain. Not too much is known about that! But burt canyon (a young tester) has been doing the research. Hes been in a hotel room 134 days filling it with post-its that all say: 'hidden reasons.'

Review: Man Walking Around a Corner (1887) Genres: Documentary, Short Runtime: 1 min English This is a damaged first film in the world. It's been said the length is about 13 seconds however only a frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner survive.

Malay Man Walking Around the Corner adalah cebisan filem yang terselamat yang merupakan rakaman imej bergerak pertama dunia. Dikatakan rakaman asal mempunyai durasi 13 saat akan tetapi hanya 2 saat dari rakaman tersebut berjaya terselamat. Seperti juga tajuknya rakaman ini hanya memaparkan seorang lelaki berjalan.

Honestly, man walking around the corner was a pretty good film, speaking as a film critic. Watched it back in the 1880's with my family, pumped for the premiere. Was not disappointed. It's exactly what it says on the tin, and to be honest, the titular man walking around the corner is a pretty endearing character and his arc of walking around the corner is pretty interesting and well developed. Overall, this film is a solid watch and I would definitely recommend checking it out. 9/10 please pick it up when you get the chance (unfortunately no streaming services have this film)