Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Roundhay Garden Scene.ogg

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Original – Roundhay Garden Scene is the world's earliest surviving motion-picture film. The film is an 1888 short silent film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds. It is the oldest surviving film in existence, noted by the Guinness Book of Records.

Reason: EV, The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film
Articles in which this image appears: Roundhay Garden Scene, Precursors of film, History of film technology
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Louis Le Prince

Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 04:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I coulda sworn this was already featured. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:12, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support But please don't add a spoiler for the ending when it appears as Today's Featured Picture. Belle (talk) 12:51, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
<spoiler> La Prince gets in a spaceship with Elvis and flies off to Mars, stopping only to deliver cocaine to Sherlock Holmes.</spoiler> — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:13, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
La Prince? That's the real spoiler. Belle (talk) 16:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. Madame Butterfly expands on the discovery. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:16, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very historical piece of film. And that ending with Sherlock always gives me goosebumps. GamerPro64 16:17, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support: The plot is a bit thin compared to the Leaping Fish mystery I just watched. All the same, historical value wins the day. Fylbecatulous talk 23:07, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]