Accordion Player (1888)-***

Director: Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince

Stars: Adolphe Le Prince.

All this movie is is that of a man playing the accordion. The last remaining film of Le Prince's single-lens camera LPCCP Type-1 MkII. It was recorded on the steps of the house of Joseph Whitley, Adolphe's grandfather. A young man (Adolphe Le Prince reprising his much applauded role from “Roundhay Garden Scene”) struts along the steps of his grandfather’s house playing a diatonic button accordion in a demonstration of the director’s eye for interconnection between movement and background.  The pioneer filmmaker in the concluding throws of his brief but glittering film career churns out a final film lacking in the social commentary of his early work, which has yet to be restored by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and as such is only of academic interest.A very good, solid, extremely well-done movie and a must-see! Louis Le Prince supplied the Cinematography.