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[[File:Leprince-spools-film1-lenscamera.png|thumb|right|200px|60mm spools used for developing film shot in single-lens camera. Each section would carry 4 frames of negative (1930 Science Museum, London)]]

This addendum was submitted on 10 October 1888<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Aulas & Pfend|first=Jean-Jacques & Jacques|date=1 December 2000|title=Louis Aimé Augustin Leprince, inventeur et artiste, précurseur du cinéma|journal=1895. Revue de l'association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma|volume=32}}</ref> and, on 14 October, Le Prince used his single-lens camera to film ''[[Roundhay Garden Scene]]''. During the period 1889–1890 he worked with the mechanic James Longley on various "deliverers" (projectors) with one, two, three and sixteen lenses. The images were to be separated, printed and mounted individually, sometimes on a flexible band, moved by metal eyelets. The single lens projector used individual pictures mounted in wooden frames.<ref name=":0" /> His assistant, James Longley, claimed the three-lens version was the most successful.<ref name=":0" /> Those close to Le Prince have testified to him projecting his first films in his workshop as tests, but they were never presented to anyone outside his immediate circle of family and associates and the nature of the projector is unknown.

This addendum was submitted on 10 October 1888<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Aulas & Pfend|first=Jean-Jacques & Jacques|date=1 December 2000|title=Louis Aimé Augustin Leprince, inventeur et artiste, précurseur du cinéma|journal=1895. Revue de l'association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma|volume=32}}</ref> and, on 14 October, Le Prince used his single-lens camera to film ''[[Roundhay Garden Scene]]''. During the period 1889–1890 he worked with the mechanic James Longley on various "deliverers" (projectors) with one, two, three and sixteen lenses. The images were to be separated, printed and mounted individually, sometimes on a flexible band, moved by metal eyelets.

The single lens projector used individual pictures mounted in wooden frames.<ref name=":0" /> His assistant, James Longley, claimed the three-lens version was the most successful.<ref name=":0" /> Those close to Le Prince have testified to him projecting his first films in his workshop as tests, but they were never presented to anyone outside his immediate circle of family and associates and the nature of the projector is unknown.

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In 1889, he took French-American dual citizenship in order to establish himself with his family in New York City and to follow up his research. However, he was never able to perform his planned public exhibition at the [[Morris–Jumel Mansion]] in Manhattan, in September 1890, due to his disappearance.<ref name=nyt-1990-09-16>{{Cite news|last=Myrent|first=Glenn|date=1990-09-16|title=100 Years Ago, the Father of Movies Disappeared|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/16/movies/100-years-ago-the-father-of-movies-disappeared.html|access-date=2023-11-04|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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In 1889, he took French-American dual citizenship in order to establish himself with his family in