What is the first film ever filmed? When was it and who starred in it?

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What is the first film ever filmed? When was it and who starred in it?

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Last updated Mar 18 2023.
Originally posted Mar 17 2023 6:39 PM.

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The first movie was The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge an 11-frame clip shot on June 19th, 1878. The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene shot in 1888 by Louis Le Prince and dazzles the eye with a remarkable display of 4 people walking in a garden.

It's an 11-frame clip shot on June 19th, 1878 using twelve separate cameras (frame 12 was not used) to film a man riding a horse on Leland Stanford's (the founder of Stanford University) Palo Alto Stock Farm (the eventual site of Stanford University).

Not exactly the high-action, special effects-driven, Braveheart-style, Hollywood blockbusters that grace our cinema screens today, but pretty impressive considering no one ever, in the history of the entire world, had made a movie before.

https://historycooperative.org/first-movie-ever-made/

Response last updated by elburcher on Mar 18 2023.
Mar 18 2023, 12:39 PM

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Answer 1

In 1888, Louis Le Prince filmed "Roundhay Garden Scene" which is thought to have been the first motion picture. At least, the oldest surviving picture.

The footage features Le Prince's family.

https://wiki2.org/en/List_of_cinematic_firsts+Milds.2

https://wiki2.org/en/Roundhay_Garden_Scene+Milds.2

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