In October 1888, Louis Aime Augustine Le Prince produced the world's first films in Leeds, England. These were shot on cameras patented in both America and the UK. Once he had perfected his projection machine, Le Prince arranged to demonstrate his discovery to the American public and, thus, the world.

On 16th September 1890, just weeks before he was due to sail to New York, Louis Le Prince embarked on a train journey from Dijon to Paris, but disappeared without a trace. Given the absence of any remains or evidence of a body, there was no legal basis to challenge Le Prince's claim that he invented a camera that recorded the first moving image.

As a result, several years later, Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers claimed the glory and prize of being acknowledged as the first people to pioneer film. Louis Le Prince was never added to history books. 'The First Film' is a feature-length documentary proving once and for all that Le Prince made the world's very first moving image film in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.