Joseph Whitley

Joseph Whitley
Whitley (far left) in Roundhay Garden Scene directed by Louis Le Prince
Born17 October 1816
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Died12 January 1891(1891-01-12) (aged 74)
Spouse
(m. 1842; died 1888)
ChildrenJohn Robinson Whitley (1843–1922)
Sarah Elizabeth LePrice, neé Whitley (1846–1925)
Joseph (?–?)
Gravestone in Roundhay Churchyard, Leeds, of Sarah Robinson, and her husband, Joseph Whitley[1]

Joseph Whitley (17 October 1816 – 12 January 1891) was an English mechanical engineer and metallurgist. He appears in the Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest known film fragment,[2] shot by his son-in-law Louis Le Prince.[3]

He can be seen as the man with the flying tail-coat in Roundhay Garden Scene, walking next to his wife, Sarah.[4][5]

  1. ^ Historic England. "Gravestone of Joseph and Sarah Whitley (1460284)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  2. ^ Gerlach, Nina (April 2013). "Historical garden design as an ethical argument in film — 'Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks' 1". Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes. 33 (2): 96–108. doi:10.1080/14601176.2013.768803. ISSN 1460-1176.
  3. ^ Hale, Tom (20 August 2020). "The World's Oldest Film Has Been Revamped By Artificial Intelligence". IFLScience. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  4. ^ Macdonald, Ian (4 August 2015). "Louis le Prince shot the first film – but did he invent movies?". The Conversation. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  5. ^ Tucker, Thomas Deane (10 December 2019). The Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474409292. Retrieved 1 March 2021.