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Accordion Player
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Title: Accordion Player

Release Date: 1 Jan 1888

Runtime: 1m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Whitley Partners

Production Companies: Whitley Partners

Overview: The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the house of Joseph Whitley, Adolphe's grandfather.

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Average Vote: 4.8 (75 votes)

Cast

  • Himself: Adolphe Le Prince
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