Roundhay Garden Scene : This film is cursed!

This film is cursed!

Just think...everyone on Earth who was alive when this film was made is now dead.

If you ask me, this film is way more cursed than the Poltergeist series.

And what were they thinking, prancing around while Jack the Ripper was on the loose?!

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I think the movie is an artistic representation of the Jack the Ripper period. Think about the statement the director's trying to make. A nice older couple dancing around, an attractive young woman turning, meanwhile a swarthy figure just walks right through the scene. Clearly the figure represents Jack the Ripper skulking out his next victim (Harriet Hartley).

Seriously though, the old woman (Mrs. Sarah Whitley) died 10 days after the film was made. The young man (Adolphe Le Prince) died in a duck hunting incident in 1903 (suicide, accident, murder?). The director, Louis Le Prince, disappeared in 1890, never to be heard from again. I mean, did Edison kill all of them? or was Roundhay Garden built on a Native American burial ground?! Someone should check on that.

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It's pretty creepy. I did a report on the history of filmmaking,Le Prince and his works. I only heard about Le Prince's disappearence. I didn't hear about Adolph's or Sarah's deaths until recently. That's pretty creepy.

I feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of dumb people. - Sophia from "Kid Nation"

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The oldest living man is 114, but this film is 122 years old.

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The movie was filmed on October 14, 1888 in Leeds. The last person who was alive in 1888 was Kamato Hongo (1887-2003), a Japanese citizen. The last UK citizen who was alive in 1888 was Amy Isabel Hulmes (1887-2001), although there's no indication that the one-year-old Hulmes was anywhere near the scene.

Of the five people known to be present, we don't know when Harriet Hartley died (she'd be 141), but Adolphe Le Prince (son of the director and the guy walking around) lived as long as 1902.

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