Who is credited with inventing the first motion picture camera using roll film and producing the first motion picture in 1888?

• A. Louis Le Prince
• B. Thomas Edison
• C. George Eastman
• D. Eadweard Muybridge

Answer: (A)

Capturing moving images on a flexible film strip to create motion pictures is the central idea here. Louis Le Prince built a camera that could expose a continuous strip of film, advancing frame by frame, and in 1888 he produced some of the earliest moving pictures, such as the Roundhay Garden Scene. This achievement marks the first motion-picture camera using film to record motion and the first motion picture itself, well before Edison’s later systems and before the established use of widely available roll film in cinema practice. Muybridge’s work involved multiple cameras to study motion through separate images, not a single motion-picture camera, and Eastman’s contribution was the roll film stock itself, not the invention of the camera. So the best answer is Louis Le Prince because he first combined the camera and moving-image footage in 1888.