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Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Yorkshire on 14 October 1888. [1] It is believed to be the oldest surviving film. The camera used was patented in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1888. [2]
1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
Silent film Sound recording Colour film Longest film Notes United Kingdom: 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) [1] [2] Algy the Piccadilly Johnny (1900) Blackmail (1929 film) Representatives of the British Isles (1909) [3] USA: 1889 Monkeyshines (1889) The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895) Children Forming the U.S. Flag (1909) O.J.: Made in ...
The Broadway Melody, first ever musical film. Also the first sound film and first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Happy Days is the first feature film to be shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. It was filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. [50] Glorifying the American Girl, the first film with sound to swear.
Movies like Metropolis (1927) and Woman in the Moon (1929) partly created the genre of science fiction films [93] and Lotte Reiniger became a pioneer in animation, producing animated feature films like The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving and oldest European made animated movie.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 February 2025. 1907 Argentine film El Sartorio The full film Directed by Anonymous Production company Pathi Distributed by Something Weird Video (1970) Release date 1907 (1907) Running time 8 minutes Country Argentina Language Silent El Satario, also known as El Sartorio or ”The Devil”, is the name ...
The film is partially lost; only the first and last reels of the film are preserved at the National Film Archive of India. Some film historians believe these belong to a 1917 remake of the film by Phalke titled Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra. The status of Raja Harishchandra as the first full-length Indian feature film has been debated.
A Trip to the Moon (French: Le voyage dans la lune, lit. 'The Journey to the Moon' [lə vwajaʒ dɑ̃ la lyn]) [a] is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed, and produced by Georges Méliès.