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Le Prince’s body was never found. As there was no proof that he had died, his family couldn’t protect his inventions. A year later, Edison successfully patented his own motion picture camera. Le Prince’s family was distraught and entered into a long copyright legal battle, even accusing Edison of having Le Prince murdered. It’s an accusation that has never been proved.

IN LIVING COLOUR

Despite being nicknamed ‘Daftie’ as a child, Edinburgh-born James Clerk Maxwell went on to become one of the great nineteenth-century scientists. From his colour vision studies, Maxwell found that all the colours of nature could be counterfeited to the eye by mixing just three pure colours of light – red, green and blue. In May 1861 he presented the first-ever colour photograph at a lecture he gave to the Royal Institute.

His pioneering demonstration used an image of a tartan ribbon photographed three times. A trio of exposures of the ribbon were taken through red, green and blue filters and then projected through separate magic lanterns in order to create one single image – the first colour photo. These experiments have formed the basis of nearly all photochemical and electronic colour photography since.

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