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Did Auguste François also take motion pictures in addition to photographs?
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No
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He tried but failed
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Auguste François was a French photographer and inventor who is credited with taking the first motion pictures in 1888. He used a special camera called the chronophotograph to take a series of photographs of a subject in motion. These photographs could then be viewed as a motion picture by projecting them onto a screen. François' work was a major step in the development of motion pictures.
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