Accordion Player

{{Short description|Silent film (1888)}}

{{For|the instrument|Accordion}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Accordion Player

| image = File:The Accordion 2 fps.ogv

| caption = The film

| director = Louis Le Prince

| producer =

| writer =

| narrator =

| starring = {{Plainlist |

• Adolphe Le Prince

}}

| cinematography = Louis Le Prince

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1888|10|14|df=y}}

| runtime = 10 seconds

| country = United Kingdom

| language = Silent

}}

Accordion Player is a short silent motion picture directed by Louis Le Prince, is one of the earliest surviving motion pictures. The brief film shows a man (Adolphe Le Prince) playing the accordion in a single, static shot, highlighting the pioneering experiments in motion capture during the late 19th century.{{Cite book |last=Freire |first=Pedro Martins |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/O_livro_dos_filmes_proibidos_e_censurado/hq0SEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=O livro dos filmes proibidos e censurados da História do Cinema: Volume 1 (1890-1899) |date=2024-07-05 |publisher=Ibis Libris Editora |isbn=978-85-7823-376-1 |pages=1853 |language=en}}