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What did Le Prince do for a living besides inventing an early motion-picture camera?
He was an artist
He was a politician
He was a chemist
He was a musician
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Louis Le Prince was a French inventor and artist. He was born in Metz, France, in 1841. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then moved to England, where he worked as an artist and photographer. In 1888, he invented an early motion-picture camera, which he called the "Chronophotographe". He filmed a number of short films, including one of the first moving pictures of a train.
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