- The University of Leeds named their Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television in his honour. However, since 2012 it no longer exists.
- In November 1886 Le Prince drew up a specification giving full details and working drawings, and applied for an American patent (for a 16 lens contraption). On January 10, 1888, the U. S. Patent Office in Washington granted his patent, No. 376,247, entitled "Method of, and Apparatus for, Producing Animated Pictures."
- In 2003, an 1890 photograph of a drowned man resembling Le Prince was discovered in the Paris police archives. It was never determined whether or not this drown man was Le Prince.
- He has been credited as the "Father of Cinematography", but his work did not influence the commercial development of cinema owing largely to the events surrounding his 1890 disappearance.
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