What was the first movie ever made?

What was the first movie ever made?

The First Movie ever made was Roundhay Garden Scene (1888). The world’s earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action, is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It’s a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it’s just 2.11 seconds long, It is technically a movie.

Today, movie theaters offer such a unique movie-going experience. Watching a movie on a screen 100 times bigger than your average television blows most viewers away. If you see a film in 3-D, it’s even more astonishing since the action seems to jump right off the screen at you.

So, the first movie ever made was THE HORSE IN THE MOTION ( 1878)

In 1878, Englishman Eadweard Muybridge created a brief, moving picture called The Horse In Motion. California senator Leland Stanford, who was also a railroad tycoon, racehorse owner, and eventual founder of Stanford University, asked Muybridge to use technology to settle a question debated by horse owners: when a horse runs, does it ever have all four hooves off the ground at the same time?

Muybridge used multiple cameras to film a horse in motion. He then assembled the separate photographs into a stop-motion movie that proved that the answer to Stanford’s question was yes; when a horse runs, there is a split-second during which all four hooves are off the ground simultaneously.

Most early movies that followed Muybridge’s brief demonstration of what could be achieved by motion-picture technology were short, silent films. Many were just a few seconds long. The earliest movies created for entertainment were just a few minutes long.

Over the next few decades, motion-picture technology grew by leaps and bounds with the invention of the first cameras. As technology improved, film production companies began to make movies, and business people started to open cinemas to show the films.

In the 1920s, film production companies began to add sound to films. In 1927, The Jazz Singer became the first full-length feature film to feature dialog synchronized with the picture to create an actual “talking” film.

The UK, the US, and France all have claims for the invention of cinema. And in those countries, three different technologies were invented to convey the moving image.


In the UK, Louis Le Prince developed a single-lens recorder that got, in 1888, the Roundhay Garden Scene. Le Prince’s technology never took off, and he is mostly forgotten.

In the US, in 1891, the famed inventor Thomas Edison also made a video recording device and toured it around carnival booths, projecting even what we’re considered at the time erotic scenes.
The Wilson Greeting was Edison’s first video.

Finally, the Lumière Brothers in France, whose technology scaled into the motion picture business, first filmed the ‘Workers leaving the factory’ in 1895.

As you can see, the Lumières technology allowed for a longer film duration, which was played in a showroom, where an investor picked it up and then started the early days of the industrialization of cinema. Directing, montage, and other crafts added to the art form began developing as more and more people became interested in cinema.


The first feature-length multi-reel film was a 1906 Australian production, ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang,” about bushranger (outlaw) Ned Kelly. He died in 1880, and by 1906, Ned Kelly was already viewed as a national anti-hero mainly because he stood up to colonial rule. So, the honor of the first feature film goes to today’s incomplete ‘Story of the Kelly Gang,’’ using Lumière’s technology.

Here’s the film poster. So, while film recording and projecting were invented in the UK, the USA, and France, the first feature film was in Australia, 5 years after the federation of its different states formed a new country.

What was the first movie ever made?

The first recording ever registered is Passage Of Venus, 1874. It is available on YouTube; it runs 6 seconds.

But The Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat is officially the first movie ever made. It was the first exhibition to the public. It was created by the Lumiere brothers in 1896, showing only a train arriving at a station.

If you are talking about feature-length films, it is The Story Of Kelly Gang, 1906, directed by Charles Tait, running 60 minutes.

I assume you mean the first motion picture made up of successive stills, which is essentially what we call now “movies.” The first moving picture using sequential photos is of a horse running on a track. The story goes that Leland Stanford, who eventually founded and named Stanford University after his late son, was interested in whether a horse lifted all its legs off the ground at some point during its gallop.


In 1878, Stanford solicited the help of Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer. Muybridge placed successive cameras at the Palo Alto race track with a string pulled taut at each camera hooked to each camera’s shutter.

When the horse sped by, the string would pull each camera’s shutter, creating quick still photos. The resulting footage proved that, yes, during a horse’s gallop, the legs are off the ground for a split second and that seeing the images run successively makes the horse appear to be moving.

The world’s first surviving motion picture film is “Roundhay Garden Scene”, produced in Leeds, England 1888. It is a short film directed by French inventor Louise Le Prince. The movie’s length is just 2.11 seconds and shows some of Louis Le Price’s family members walking around a garden. It is technically a movie because it shows actual consecutive action.

But how was it filmed before the first film camera, invented by Thomas Edison with the help of his assistant William Dickson in 1890, called the Kinetograph?

This film was created with simple devices like thaumatropes. Thaumatropes were optical toys made from paper and string that show basic optical illusions. They were popular during the Victorian period.

Do you mean the first projected movie with a plot? In the 1890s, the Edison company did release kinetoscope films, in which you had to peer into a viewer and turn a crank. These were just amusing little vignettes like Little Egypt doing a belly dance.

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George Melies in France began projecting films of street scenes and little dramatic scenes. His first movie with a plot was his 1902 adaptation of the Jules Verne story “From the Earth to the Moon.” It had amusing special effects for its day. As a film with a story, it preceded Edison’s “The Great Train Robbery” by a year.

Technically, the first film-like piece is The Horse in Motion, which is “technically” a series of photos put together. It was created in 1878 by an inventor, Eadweard Muybridge, and is considered humanity’s first step into the beautiful world of film.

Less technically, the earliest actual film footage that survived is commonly considered to be the Roundhay Garden Scene by Louis Le Prince; it was shot in 1888. We know a handful of other short films made by that time, like Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge(88), Accordion Player (88), and Man Walking Around a Corner, which is said to have been shot the year before, in 1887. They are all Louis Le Prince’s, his only known films, all just a few seconds long and pretty trivial. Who knows why everyone’s so fixated on Roundhay?

Practically, the first films that were watched how you imagine films being watched were the Lumiere brothers. Pictures such as Arrival of a Train at La Coitat (1895), Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (95), and Tables Turned on the Gradner (95) made history as some of the first films that audiences saw and remembered. They are also the first titles you will recognize in my answer.

Let’s go further and name some landmark films that led to the development of modern cinema that we all know and love.

The first full feature was a documentary called In the Army (1900).

The first sound film was The Jazz Singer (1927), but movies were commonly accompanied by music long before.

The first color film was Cupid Angling (1918), but hand coloring had been around for about 15 years. Color film also wouldn’t take off until The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind.

The first digital film, interestingly, was an Italian drama, Julia and Julia (1987). That remains the only thing it’s known for.

Which is the first Hollywood movie?

First silent movie

In old California .1910

First sound movie

The jazz singer.1927

It’s the first colorful movie.

The Cat and The Fiddle. 1935

The world’s first motion picture is often attributed to several pioneering filmmakers. Still, one of the earliest recognized examples is “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory” (also known as “La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon”) by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière.

This short film was created in 1895 in Lyon, France. It’s a brief clip, only about 46 seconds long, showing workers leaving the Lumière factory. While it may not be a traditional narrative film, it is considered one of the earliest motion pictures and marked the beginning of cinema as we know it today.

Roundhay Garden Scene is the oldest surviving movie in the world. It was a short silent film created in 1888 by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The film features Le Prince’s son, Adolphe, Sarah Whitley and Joseph Whitley (who owned the home where the movie was filmed), and Annie Hatley walking around in a garden.

What was the first movie ever made?

Le Prince recorded the film using 1888 Eastman Kodak paper base photographic film through a single-lens combi camera projector, which Le Prince created. In 1930 the National Science Museum in London, England produced photographic copies of the surviving parts from the filmstrip.

If you’re talking about a theater where crowds of people would sit and look at a screen, that distinction goes to the Lumiere Brothers. In 1895, a theater full of Parisians saw ten short films, each around 40 seconds long, showcasing what could be done with the cinematograph, which functioned as a projector and a camera.
The first of those movies was a 46-second uninterrupted shot of workers leaving a factory, aptly titled “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory.”

The First Movie ever made was Roundhay Garden Scene (1888). The world’s earliest surviving motion-picture film showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It’s a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it’s just 2.11 seconds long, It is technically a movie.

I was 4 years old when my Mom took me to the movie theater to see Walt Disney’s “Snow White.” Since it was released every 7 years, she took me to see it again when I was 11. The third time I saw it, I was 18, and I saw it alone.

When I had my kids, I always took them to the movies, and later, I took my nieces and nephews to see their first movies, too. By the way, when my nephew was 4, I took him to see his first movie, and funnily enough, it was “Snow White.” I bought it when it came out on video, and I still watch it at least once a year. I am now 70 and will watch it as long as I exist.

The easy answer is “Fred Ott’s sneeze,” filmed by William K.L. Dickson for the Edison Kinetograph Company in 1896. That’s arguably the first American film ever made. Here’s the link to YouTube:Motion pictures were “invented” in several locations around the same time. For example, the Lumiere Brothers in France may have some titles earlier than this since they began filming in 1895. But this is generally recognized as the first American film.

There are other candidates, but this is one of them: “Sortie de l’Usine Lumière de Lyon.”
On 11 July 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrated their film technology, the cinématographe, to scientists. The cinématographe was an all-in-one motion picture film camera, a film developer, and a projector. Their first film was Sortie de l’Usine Lumière de Lyon, which is often cited as the first accurate motion picture ever made, although this is disputed.

The conventional answer has already been provided. Just know that presenting still images in a quick row existed in other forms before celluloid. Film History Before 1920

So it partly depends on what a “movie” is to you. We have gone full circle since we now have digital images instead of celluloid and still call it a “movie.” Etienne-Jules Marey invented the film camera in 1882; Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince continued the work, and they, combined with George Eastman, might be viewed as closer to the inventors of “film” than we think. You have to decide if a few seconds counts as a “movie” and whether projecting it for an audience is necessary or if one of the simpler one-viewer devices counts.

This entirely depends on what you count as a “movie.” So why not just go through the early years of this innovation, and you can stop when you hit the form of media that you call a “movie”?

Moving pictures by the rapid display of different images has long been known. The zoetrope depends on a feature of our sight called the “persistence of vision.” Later developments in this device combined it with the magic lantern and allowed the images to be projected on a screen. It’s just like a movie, some might say.

So, if you want to count that screen projection as the first animated short film, you certainly can. This dates back to the late 1880s. If you are satisfied that the earliest forms of the zoetrope fit your needs, then we can date that back to 1834, although there is a historical record that such a device existed in early China, about 100 A.D.

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If you insist that the images be made by photography, then we go to 1878, when Sallie Gardner at a Gallop was created. According to the story, Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned to produce a series of photographs to solve a bet: does a horse always have one foot on the ground during a gallop? (It doesn’t).

His innovation was to use 24 cameras, each triggered by a hair being broken as the horse moved forward on a race track. The photos were displayed to people via a zoetrope and later by screen projection. To many historians, this is considered the “first movie.”

But others want the first film that was created on celluloid strips.

The French were tremendous innovators in early photography, inventing the daguerreotype, plate photographer, and later cameras. So, it is no surprise that Frenchman Louis La Prince invented the first film strip camera, single lens, moving film, and movie camera. While we don’t know exactly what he shot first as part of his tests, Roundhay Garden Scene from 1888 was shared with others and is the oldest surviving film, according to Guinness World Records. This film is even listed on IMDb. It has a score of 7.6. Roundhay Garden Scene (1888).

Note that all of these early films had to be viewed by one person at a time. Devices like Edison’s Kinetoscope were hand-cranked machines that you looked into, paying as much as a nickel for the privilege. Actual screen projection had to await further technological developments. The Eidoloscope was invented by Woodville Latham (using the talent of several people he hired, including former Edison employees) and projected the first moving film in 1895, showing films of the Griffo-Barnett prize boxing fight. The key innovation was the “Lantham Loop,” for which he had a patent. A patent that was stolen and used widely, especially in Europe.

Contemporaneously, in France, the (now more famous) Lumière brothers showed their first movies only months after Lantham. They showed ten films, all made for the presentation, including their first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory.

The creation of this film likely predates Lantham’s, even if the display was months later. This film often takes the title of “first real film,” even though La Prince’s work predates it by seven years.

Sometimes, it’s all about commercializing the product, which the Lumières did.

What was the first movie ever made?

Side note: by failing to see that narrative was the future of film, they abandoned shooting real-world scenes as the novelty faded. However, they did develop the first practical process for color photography.

According to a Google Search, it’s 1888’s “Roundhay Garden Scene” by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It’s only 2–1/10s seconds long, but the Guinness Book of World Records claims it’s the oldest surviving film.

Before that, often cited as a movie precursor, was 1878’s “The Horse in Motion” by Eadweard Muybridge — taken by placing multiple still cameras of the period center along a stretch of racetrack, each attached to strings laid across the track.

The cameras were triggered when the horse snapped the strings while riding past, and then the still images were placed together and flipped through to give the illusion of motion (in the same way that you would draw separate images in the outside margins of a book and then flip through it to make a short animated movie). It was an experiment done to settle a bet — do all four of a horse’s legs leave the ground at any point while galloping? (The answer is, “They Do.”)

Likely one of the first movies released for public exhibition was 1895’s “Arrival of a Train” — that’s the one where it’s claimed people were so terrified by seeing the moving image of a train approaching the camera that they jumped out of the way! This brief clip (49″ including a 3″ opening title) was shot by the Lumière Brothers, among history’s first filmmakers, and helped develop one of the first practical cameras/projectors, the “Cinematograph.”

Now, if you wanted to know what was the first narrative film with continuity of action (as opposed to separate scenes that followed onto each other like scenes in a play), that would be Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 “The Great Train Robbery,” which is widely considered to be the first motion picture to use editing effects like cross-cutting to tell a story. (Méliès’s pioneering work in narrative filmmaking waswas less about narrative than all the marvelous new special effects he was inventing!)

In 1888, the world’s first surviving motion-picture film that showed consecutive action is called: “Roundhay Garden Scene.” It’s a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it’s just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie.

In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière introduced the Cinématographe. This projector would show films of simple movement or commonplace occurrences such as a baby eating, a hose squirting water, trains approaching, and people dancing. The film short “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory” is considered the first motion picture.

In 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening occurred at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera projector called the Cinematographe.

The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.


Movie technology has its roots in the early 1830s, when Joseph Plateau of Belgium and Simon Stampfer of Austria simultaneously developed a device called the phenakistoscope, which incorporated a spinning disc with slots through which a series of drawings could be viewed, creating the effect of a single moving image.

The phenakistoscope, considered the precursor of modern motion pictures, was followed by decades of advances. In 1890, Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson developed the first motion-picture camera, the Kinetograph. The following year, in 1891, Edison invented the Kinetoscope, a machine with a peephole viewer that allowed one person to watch a strip of film as it moved past a light.


In 1894, Antoine Lumiere, the father of Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948), saw a demonstration of Edison’s Kinetoscope. The elder Lumiere was impressed but reportedly told his sons, who ran a successful photographic plate factory in Lyon, France, that they could come up with something better.

Louis Lumiere’s Cinematographe, which was patented in 1895, was a combination of a movie camera and projector that could display moving images on a screen for an audience. The cinematograph was also smaller and lighter, using less film than Edison’s technology.


The Lumieres opened theaters (known as cinemas) in 1896 to show their work and sent crews of cameramen worldwide to screen films and shoot new material. In America, the film industry quickly took off. In 1896, Vitascope Hall, believed to be the first theater in the U.S.

devoted to showing movies, opened in New Orleans. In 1909, The New York Times published its first film review (of D.W. Griffith’s “Pippa Passes”); in 1911, the first Hollywood film studio opened, and in 1914, Charlie Chaplin made his big-screen debut.


In addition to the cinematograph, the Lumieres also developed the first practical color photography process, the Autochrome plate, which debuted in 1907.

What was the first movie ever made?

This one is a bit tough, so I’ll present some examples. 1877 – Charles Emile Reynaud invented the Praxinoscope, a mirrored drum that gives the illusion of movement using strips of pictures.
1881 – William Kennedy Laurie Dickson designed the Kinetoscope, a kind of movie projector, and ran a trial of a movie called ‘Monkeyshines.’


A year after Thomas Edison invented the Kinetoscope, the Holland Brothers opened the first Kinetoscope Parlor in New York. This was the first commercial exhibition of movies.

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In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumiere patented Cinematographe, a device that could project movies to several spectators at the same time. December 28, 1895, they presented the first commercial display of a film to an audience, running 20 minutes, consisting of 10 short stories.


‘The Great Train Robbery’ (1903) is the first real full-length movie, the first narrative Western film with a storyline, and the first absolute smash hit.


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It depends on the method used. People have tried animating pictures since the dawn of photography. The first surviving moving photography can be traced back to some of Eadweard Muybridge’s work, using the zoopraxiscope that provided the prototype of what you would call GIFs today. His photograph, The Horse in Motion, made in 1878 using the zoopraxiscope, can be considered the first to move.

However, the first real movie that used cinema equipment was the Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), created by French cinematographer Louis Le Prince. Shot using a 16-lens camera is considered the first surviving motion picture in the world beyond other crude methods like the zoopraxiscope and the kinetoscope.

What was the first movie ever made?

And then Thomas Edison and the Lumiere would perfect the process six to seven years later from across both sides of the Atlantic. Eventually, one-reel films would soon become popular among audiences by the end of the century and decade, depending on the method used.

People have tried animating pictures since the dawn of photography. The first surviving moving photography can be traced back to some of Eadweard Muybridge’s work, using the zoopraxiscope that provided the prototype of what you would call GIFs today. His photograph, The Horse in Motion, made in 1878 using the zoopraxiscope, can be considered the first to move.

However, the first real movie that used cinema equipment was the Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), created by French cinematographer Louis Le Prince. Shot using a 16-lens camera is considered the first surviving motion picture in the world beyond other crude methods like the zoopraxiscope and the kinetoscope.

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And then Thomas Edison and the Lumiere would perfect the process six to seven years later from across both sides of the Atlantic. Eventually, one-reel films would soon become popular among audiences by the end of the century and decade.

History of Cinema :

  • 1895, the Lumiere brothers held one of the first public film screenings. Viewers couldn’t believe the moving magic before their eyes. Today, fact, fiction, and debate continue to swirl around cinema.
  • The question of who invented film has been a question for ages. Was it the French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere who, on February 13, 1895, patented the cinematograph for showing moving images? Or should the brilliant American inventor Thomas Edison, with his peephole viewer, be credited? And what about German brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky, who screened films in Berlin on their movie projector around the same time as the famous French siblings? Several other American and British cinema pioneers also deserve a mention.
  • The Lumiere brothers have a prominent position in most accounts of the history of cinema. They are customarily referred to as the inventors of film, despite the extensive preparatory work done by Thomas Edison and despite film screenings happening in other cities at nearly the same time as those of the brothers.
  • On December 28, 1895, the first commercial, public screening of the brothers’ films took place in the Grand Cafe in Paris. This evening is widely considered the start of moviegoing.
  • Legend has it that the following year, the audience panicked at the Arrival of a Train screening at La Ciotat, a short film by the Lumiere brothers. The film shows a train entering the station of La Ciotat, growing larger and larger as it hurtles toward the viewers. The camera perspective makes it appear like they would be run over.
  • The oft-told story posits that audience members, thinking the train was entering the cafe, jumped out of their seats and fled in panic. Whether fact or myth, it is a beautiful story about people experiencing an essential innovation for the first time.
  • The first movie is coming from France.
  • The Lumiere brothers are widely considered the ancestors of the film industry.

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