The haunting story of a vanished Gilded Age inventor. On the eve of presenting the first motion picture camera to the world—2 years before Edison—its inventor, Augustin Le Prince, vanished without a trace. Two years later, after his experiments had strained both his finances and his marriage, he was finally ready to present his invention to New York’s most illustrious patrons at the Morris–Jumel Mansion. Laurel Avery, author of “Light and Shadow”, will go into depth about the research involved in retracing Le Prince’s steps before his mysterious disappearance