In the early 1890s, William Kennedy Dickson created one of the world’s first motion picture cameras in Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Keen to show off the magical new technology, he traveled the world taking videos. In 1896, just a few years after he had invented the device, he made history by taking a short film of Pope Leo XIII at the Vatican. In honor of our newly elected American Pope, Pope Leo XIV, we’d like to share a historic video of his predecessor, Pope Leo XIII.
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In the early 1890s, William Kennedy Dickson created one of the world’s first motion picture cameras in Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Keen to show off the magical new technology, he traveled the world taking videos. In 1896, just a few years after he had invented the device, he made history by taking a short film of Pope Leo XIII at the Vatican. In honor of our newly elected American Pope, Pope Leo XIV, we’d like to share a historic video of his predecessor, Pope Leo XIII.
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