Roundhay Garden Scene
In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
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"No plot. No sound. No credits. But it was the first ever moving picture and it was directed by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, a man who's dad was pals with the earliest of photographers. The film simply involves Le Prince's family standing in the garden of a large Victorian house, moving around each other in circles. They had to do something I guess. Mad isn't it, the first ever film and it's just people doing the first crazy thing that comes to their head. It's weird watching this 120-year-old film and seeing a more vivid look at life in those days. Le Prince disapp..."
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The earliest surviving film, a 2 1/8 inch wide paper roll, filmed at 10-12 frames per second. As of 2010, only photographic copies of parts of the paper filmstrip still remain.
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In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.