Roundhay Garden Scene
In the earliest surviving moving picture ever made, Samuel L Jackson demonstrates his intuitive grasp of the film actor's art. As the other actors caper about in the garden, one's eye is drawn to the window where Jackson's enigmatic character broods intensely.
The movie itself is shrouded in intrigue. Some of the film is missing. Ten days after shooting, actress Sarah Whitley was dead. In 1890, director Louis Le Prince mysteriously disappeared from a Paris train. And in 1902 his son Alphonse Le Prince, also in the film, was found shot dead at a New York duck shoot in a presumed suicide.
Jackson, the only surviving cast member, steadfastly refuses to comment on the matter.
