Phil C
08-11-2009, 02:18 PM
I will add more to this thread but thank goodness we have the copies we had. Many of the old movies even ones in sound were not carefully preserved so they have been lost forever due to thoughtlessness and lack of future vision by some.
Fortunately many were saved and are available on youtube and elsewhere. I can't post the lengths because there are always one or two that comment on it with bad language but I can tell you how to find them.
The first movie ever made was Roundbay Garden Scene and made by Louis Le Prince of France. The movie (probably more of a film than movie but I will refer to it both as movie and film) was made in Leeds, England. Leeds is a city located in north central England and is a large city though not as large as London and the population now is between 700,000 to 800,000 people estimated. Prince shot the movie on about October 14, 1888. It has his son and mother in law and two friends outside by a garden. You can see it on youtube. Just go to youtube and on search type in 1888 - Roundbay Garden Scene. There are some nonsense videos there but for right now I hope you go to the original one as you were meant to see. This movie is the first one that used a camera that recorded motion.
The other movie I would like to to see is at youtube and on search there type in 1888 - Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge. This movie is thought to have been made two weeks after the Garden movie but it may have been in the summer of 1889.
Sadly Pince disappeared two years later and many think it was a suicide as he was in financial difficulty but it was never known for sure.
I hope you enjoy the movies. They got rave reviews by the commentors as you can say and nearly all of them were positive and they were in awe of these great movies as well as the achievement.
American inventor Thomas A. Edison was to make more movies in the 1890s as well as others and soone the industry was born. By the 1900s short movies were popular in theatres and eventually longer and more epic silent movies were to come until their peack in the 1920s. Sound came in 1928 and the industry moved along. Soon Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur with Charlton Heston came along. This was just a few of the great ones that were to come which also include Titanic just to name one. The humble start of these movies were to be the forefather of a great multi-billion dollar industry. Maybe even larger world wide.
Thank goodness they are preserved. Enjoy.
Fortunately many were saved and are available on youtube and elsewhere. I can't post the lengths because there are always one or two that comment on it with bad language but I can tell you how to find them.
The first movie ever made was Roundbay Garden Scene and made by Louis Le Prince of France. The movie (probably more of a film than movie but I will refer to it both as movie and film) was made in Leeds, England. Leeds is a city located in north central England and is a large city though not as large as London and the population now is between 700,000 to 800,000 people estimated. Prince shot the movie on about October 14, 1888. It has his son and mother in law and two friends outside by a garden. You can see it on youtube. Just go to youtube and on search type in 1888 - Roundbay Garden Scene. There are some nonsense videos there but for right now I hope you go to the original one as you were meant to see. This movie is the first one that used a camera that recorded motion.
The other movie I would like to to see is at youtube and on search there type in 1888 - Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge. This movie is thought to have been made two weeks after the Garden movie but it may have been in the summer of 1889.
Sadly Pince disappeared two years later and many think it was a suicide as he was in financial difficulty but it was never known for sure.
I hope you enjoy the movies. They got rave reviews by the commentors as you can say and nearly all of them were positive and they were in awe of these great movies as well as the achievement.
American inventor Thomas A. Edison was to make more movies in the 1890s as well as others and soone the industry was born. By the 1900s short movies were popular in theatres and eventually longer and more epic silent movies were to come until their peack in the 1920s. Sound came in 1928 and the industry moved along. Soon Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur with Charlton Heston came along. This was just a few of the great ones that were to come which also include Titanic just to name one. The humble start of these movies were to be the forefather of a great multi-billion dollar industry. Maybe even larger world wide.
Thank goodness they are preserved. Enjoy.