William Friese-Greene was a man who lived a long time ago in England. He was interested in making movies, which were called "moving pictures" back then.
But making movies was really hard in those days because they didn't have the fancy cameras and equipment we have now. So, William Friese-Greene had to come up with his own ideas for how to capture pictures that would move, like a video.
He tried a lot of different things, but eventually he came up with a special camera that used a lot of different lenses to capture different frames of the moving picture. It was really clever because it helped make the pictures look smoother and more realistic.
William Friese-Greene's camera was one of the first that could capture moving pictures, and it helped inspire other people to keep improving and inventing new technologies for movies. So, we can thank him for helping create the movies we enjoy today!