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by izzystradlin on March 4th, 2005

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What was the first movie ever made called? What actors starred in it?

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  • by HalaKailo on July 27th, 2006

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    The first short was "Strongman Sandow" in 1890, if you discount the 1877 series of pictures showing a horse galloping. The first short with a story line is "The Great Train Robbery", and the first feature length film was "The Story of the Kelly Gang." The actors are Godfrey Cass, Nicholas Brierley, Elizabeth Tait,and John Tait. The first full feature color movie was "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" which made it's debut in 1914. In this film the actor who played the Devil is H. Agar Lyons.

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  • by haven979 on March 6th, 2006

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    It depends on what you call a movie. Technically it was a series of photographs taken to show that when a horse gallops, all of it's feet come off of the ground. Eadweard Muybridge did this in 1877.

    But it was actually Edison that invented the first film camera to employ moving images called the Kinetograph. And the first film strip made was dubbed "Strongman Sandow" which is just a guy flexing his muscles (1890).

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  • by lincoln on January 4th, 2006

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    I beleive that the other answer to this question may not be correct. "The Great Train Robbery" was made in the U.S. in 1903 and (I quote) "it has always been regarded as a landmark and righly so, but was certainly not a feature." the film was it was 703 feet long and ran for 12 minutes. But "The Great Train Robbery" was a continuous film. Two other films/movies are worth noting. The first was called "Soldiers of the cross" made in 1900 and ran a total of 3000 feet. (I quote) " it was probably the first film of some dramatic content of that hitherto unparalleled overall length" its first presentation was in Melbourne Town Hall (Australia) in 13 september 1900. The film was about the Salvation Army. The film was not a continuous film, but film and slides intergated.
    The Story of the Kelly Gang (also screened as Ned Kelly and His Gang) is widely regarded as the world's first feature length film. Its 70 minute length was certainly unprecedented when it was released in 1906. The movie traces the life of the legendary Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly (1855-1880). It was written and directed by Charles Tait. The film's actual reel length is 1219.2 metres. It was released in Australia on the 26th December 1906 at the Melbourne Town Hall. The movie starred Godfrey Cass, Nicholas Brierley, Elizabeth Tait and John Tait. more information about this movie can be found at the web address
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Kelly_Gang or Australia Film, The inside story (written by Ken G. Hall)

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  • by Anonymous on May 15th, 2005

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    "The Great Train Robbery" It was the first real full length movie. It was of course about a train robbery but at the end for no reason at all that related to the plot a character was shown shooting his gun at the audience to scare them.

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  • by Dani Sacota on March 28th, 2005

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    Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)

    Here's the link: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0361921/

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  • by Riouex on October 30th, 2008

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    "The Horse in Motion" starring no one in particular but a rider and his horse. It was not a movie in the traditional sense however, not as we are used to them.

    This article however:

    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/461209/the_first_movie_ever_made_a_history.html?cat=37

    :should be able to provide much more information than I ever could.

    It's interesting that you ask this question as I was recently involved in some research which, in part, required an answer to same question.

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  • by lady_reefer on December 5th, 2007

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    The first film ever made was shot by Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince back in 1888 called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's around 2 seconds long

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  • by theopolus9 on August 6th, 2007

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    I can't remember the name of the film but it was silent, and it was about a guy who wrestled wolves. President Theodore Rosevelt wanted to see this guy wrestle a wolf so he traveled to Medicine Park, Oklahoma with a crew and a motion picture camera. While filming the "wolf wrestler" they decided to make it look like the guy chased, and hunted the wolf for like three days. The last scene was the actual wrestling.

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  • by smart geek on March 4th, 2005

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    The first film ever made showed a guy who was boxing. It did not have a title.

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  • by Mitch_M6457 on September 25th, 2010

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    The oldest movie is called Roundhay Garden Scene produced in 1888.

    Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_first_movie_ever_made

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  • by Littlebit on April 13th, 2011

    Littlebit

    Roundhay Garden Scene(1888)

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  • by Anonymous on April 16th, 2007

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    Your mom was the first movie I saw if you know what I mean shizzle your fizzle nizzle.

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  • by Bloed... on stand-by on March 28th, 2011

    Bloed... on stand-by

    Here you find a motion picture of a running horse, 1887. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif

    This is supposed to be the first home movie, 1888:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundhay_Garden_Scene.ogg

    First movie ever made for projection was "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory"(1895).

    However this one was supposed to be two months earlier:
    First Motion Picture Projected for an Audience - Berlin Wintergarten Novelty Program (1895).

    source (check out for more material): http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/461209/the_first_movie_ever_made_a_history.html?cat=37
    Also see: http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro2.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film

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  • by jaredwilliam on January 18th, 2010

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    Asking what was the first movie ever made is a bit like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg. It's hard to give a definitive reply. The answer really depends on what you consider to be a movie. If you consider a set of moving pictures to be the first movie ever made, then Eadweard Muybridge's high-speed photographs of a horse galloping can rightfully claim the title. While these photos can be considered the first moving pictures, were they truly the first movie ever made?

    The best we can do is make a case for the leading contenders and let you decide for yourself what actually is the first movie ever.

    The First Motion Picture Ever Made - The Horse In Motion (1878)

    Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a motion picture. Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford (California governor/ Stanford University) 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? Muybridge's time-motion photography proved they indeed were, and the idea of motion photography was born.

    You can watch the 16-frame footage of a horse galloping by clicking HERE.

    First Home Movie Ever Made - Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)

    Early movie history is surrounded in the mists of time, as different competitors developed movie technology simultaneously. However, the Roundhay Garden Scene is thought to be the oldest surviving film on record.

    The Roundhay Garden Scene was directed by the French inventor, Louis Le Prince and features some members of Le Prince's family playfully walking around a garden. The film lasts about two seconds.

    To see what is considered to be the first movie ever made, click HERE.

    First Movie Ever Shot (U.S.A.) - Monkeyshines No. 1 (1889 or 1890)
    where it says click here don't click.. nothing will happen. I'll paste the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundhay_Garden_Scene.ogg

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