If you’re a movie fan, you’ve probably wondered, What’s the first movie ever made? This is a great question, and a somewhat complicated one.
In the late 1880’s various people began experimenting with photo, blending them together to give the illusion of a motion picture. But the technology and difficulty to capture that sort of video made motion pictures rare.
Even so, here are a couple of the very first movies:
The Horse In Motion (1878)
This groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a a single motion picture. it’s something that you could do today, using a few cameras that are set to go off at an exact moment. The movie was made to scientifically answer a popularly debated question during this era: Are all four of a horse’s hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? The video proved that they indeed were and, more importantly, motion photography was born.
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. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest surviving film in existence.
Arrival of a Train (1895)
This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam locomotive into a train station of the French coastal town of La Ciotat. It’s a single, unedited view illustrating an aspect of everyday life, and the film consists of one continuous real-time shot. There’s also a an urban legend associated with this movie that says when the film was first shown, the audience was so scared by the image of a life-sized train barreling toward them that people screamed and ran to the back of the room.
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Cool I like the horse one the best
they wanted to see if horses legs go off the gound
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Motion is an illusion.
what is it
Oh I shall make a movie!
But how long?
2 seconds!
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lol, Yeah I was wondering why they decided to make it of a man walking in a circle? I mean of all the cool things you could film, you pick a guy walking in a circle… REALLY?
yeah lame a rather watch girl movies
how can you not like it potato
probably because that’s what everyone does in life. going in a circle buuuuuuuuuh
wow you guys don’t appreciate anything do you?
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they probably must’ve just made this movie at anywhere they could?
Maybe you should put “s around those.
Going in a circle is very stupid
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it does not take 2 seconds it takes about 4 years and that just more then a hunderd people
Well, it took maybe 6,7 or 8 months, or maybe 1 year, but it depends on how much they tried to advance it.
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IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MOVIES. like srsly did u expect pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows?
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i was wondering did they go the cinema to watch it? and if they did then how much must’ve been the tickets lol
Same… I don’t understand why they just made this video 2 seconds long like wtf???
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sir, film was not commonly used yet.
They were going to make it a full 3 seconds, but they were afraid that the audience wouldn’t sit through a film that long…
I like the horse one best too it is longer, and in the other one the man just walks across the yard.
Me too.
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I can’t understand the part “horse one best too it is longer”. Put in a period.
The horse was the first!I agree with Potato!
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you people should get a grip. It has some flaws but so what. Overall I think it was pretty good for technology back then.
Seems like nobody knows when the actual first movie was created?
I think they did an AMAZING job for the first movies. I mean come on, u think that their gonna be making Family Guy and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse back then. No their not
I think the first real narrative film (not just a short) was The Story of the Kelly Gang in Australia in 1906.
i dont think that was the first movie they came out in 1905
Yep us Australians are awesome. :p
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaàaaaat. A horse for 10 seconds!?!?!?!?!?
But if you look in the bottom left you’ll see that each frame is numbered and it is running on a loop.
15 seconds
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Oh I Know What I’ll Do Today, I’ll Make A Movie That Lasts 3 Seconds.
Gooooooo Technology! -_-
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I’ve got a great idea, I’m going to make up the best movie ever, I’ll make it 2.11 seconds about a man walking over a yard.
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I would make it 14 seconds long and make it a horse running
great 3second movie
the first film was 10 seconds and about a horse
great movie for back then
165 years ago?
the first movie was 15seconds and about a hores
It. Was not dat bad
technology has advanced so much since then
Guys you shouldn’t think this is dumb and make fun of it! These were the first motion pictures ever these people were geniuses and they should be taken seriously! #havesome❤️
ya And if it weren’t for them you people wouldn’t have had ALL youre favorite Movies that you love today
My favorite is the horse one. Look at the detail!
FYI I’m so glad that they invented movies!
Well yes but there are stupid compared to today’s ones.
Cool for then. I think that the movies today are better tho. 😉
These movies no matter how weird it might seem, these films are hard to make those days…
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Well, without innovations like these, would we be at our keyboards right now?
Well, without innovations like these, we wouldn’t be here talking about them, now would we?
I think there was another movie created back then… ‘Twas a train, and people loved it cuz when the train came up at the screen, they thought it was going to run them over XD
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i think the theme of that garden scene is pretty stupid, but it’s great that they were encouraged to do what they do. Think about it: without them we wouldn’t have “iron man”, “2012”, “San Andreas”, “Indians vs aliens”, or “pacific rim”. Thanks to them
We all think that if we were around in cavemen times we would have invented the wheel or discovered fire, but we forget that our brains had not yet evolved. So too with movies. It’s genius that pushes man on!
I diffinately agree. Mankind’s technology is growing and superb. What do you expect? Other galaxies lifeform are probably laughing at us. Because our minds a re not to sharp…
1902…Trip To The Moon…France…15 mins long. Not so much the short movie is funny, but the ideas man had about the moon back then.
How long was the galloping horse and how did u fimf it out
I think most of you need to grow up.
Do YOU think YOU would have been able to make a film back then ?
I THINK (NOT). Why do you think we have the technology we have now ?
Because someone used their head and came up with something amazing. If it wasn’t for them back then, We wouldn’t have movies or TV show that we enjoy watching. What have YOU done for entertainment for the whole world to enjoy ?
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yes! finally someone got it right! the first movie was about the train guys!!! people were so scared when the train came to screen at first that they thought they were in danger and screamed! a woman even fainted. Thankyou though, person. you actually got it right.
I’m afraid you’re incorrect. The garden scene was the first true recording of a ‘motion picture’.
The train may have been the first to be shown to an audience.
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Ooo look I have a great idea! I’m going to make the best movie in the universe,one that is 3 seconds long and is about a man walking in a circle.
Hi. Wouldn’t let me watch 🙁
what about the moon thing with a cigar in its eye?
Well I would really like to thank them
It’s 2.11 seconds long. I walked out after the first second!
Men it could be this short now but back then was kinda very long i guess
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it is the best thing ever now it is my favorite movie
Hey folks.
just going to say these are amazing. it shows how far weve come in less than 150 years. but the amount of tech they had back then it is absolutely amazing to watch.
btw the man is not walking in a circle, the people are actually dancing in the garden.
I still didint get where it says wat move was the first ever made
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guys.do you think you would be able to make a movie then.its not stupid
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I dont know why but things from a long time ago that are black and white scare me idk why.
I really like the horse one its so old school horse racing
This website is a lie because there were films made before these so DO NOT USE IT; IT IS RUBBISH!!!
Then please explain what the first movie was. Thanks.
People don’t understand how important this was considering the lack of technology, Just because now a days everyone would mentally die with out it
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I’m sure these were some of the “first comments” concerning the “first movie.”
Exactly the same, 130 years later.
This is brilliant people it’s a part of history that got us where we are today I find it fascinating it’s riveting how can you not see the ingenuity and the genius in this
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Please stop saying, “It was only two seconds,” They were just experimenting, they had to take about 60 pictures to make that and it probably took a long time. The 2 hour movies we have today take about as much time as those 2 second movies took. They didn’t have as good as technology that we have today, I don’t want to start any arguments I’m just pointing out the obvious.
Tht 2 seconds was the first ever n thts pretty impressive. Ya dnt like it, y look in the first place
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I think those videos are tests to see if the they would work. I don’t think they were actually watched in movies theaters. Oh and by the way, the FIRST EVER movies that came out (not GIFs like the horse one) were about a train.
I think technology is great. I mean really people? Complaining on experiments not good enough at first? Heck life firm in other galaxies are probably laughing at us because our minds are not sharp. Give it a break. :)?
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Appreciate what they made, because they didn’t have our technology. So what if it’s two seconds long, it was probably one of the best things that happened to people back then.
Technology has come so far to think everything coming out now is an improvement on something we already have. For these to be the first movies just think how mind blowing it had to be for people back then to see something like these.
Are all these comments from the same person?
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Well it could’ve just been a guy turning
A lot of people seem confused. The horse “movie” isn’t a movie in the sense that it was recorded on a camera that obtained images sequentially. The horse clip is the result of fifteen cameras being set off separately and the images, when put together in sequence, are conjoined in our minds via something called the “persistence of vision.” So it’s more like a flip-book, many pictures in motion, than a motion picture.
sooo.. not a motion picture, but pictures in motion? do you hear yourself?
much wow, such movie
this is ridicolous how did any of them last so long it’s crazy
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There’s a movie from 1872 called “The Kiss” so it’s six years older than that horse movie
I thought Cinderella was the first movie. Was it not?
Snow White is the First disney movie not cinderella.
For how much they had done in the past and coming up with something like this would be very hard to do more than just 2.11 seconds long. You do have to think about how much they had to go through just to get those 2.11 seconds. I don’t think the people knew they were being filmed and I dought they knew what films meaning was. You also have to understand that they had to use a camera to help them come up with this idea. I think if we had these kinds of people making something like this now just think about what they can do now or even make something was past what we are doing now. I believe we are slow right now coming up with something like this.
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Academy award right there.
Wow. One two second movie became tons of 3 hour movies
This is a great movie you should watch it.
Ok, Wait how long is it?
Ummm… Its not that long
How Long?
2.11 Seconds
No thats too long
I like the train part
I like The part where he walks out the house
Your answers are wrong. The first true movie (film) created is “A Trip to the Moon” in 1902. Roundhay Garden Scene and Arrival of a Train are just videos and not considered a movie.
“a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images” – definition of GIF. About as accurate description of this masterpiece as you can get.
Not true, they were all considered films at the time.
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