The Biggest Milestones In Movie History
Describing The Milestones that changed cinema forever.
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- DirectorP.J.C. JanssenSeries of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.Oldest Footage
This 6 Second clip of the 1874 footage of the transit of The Planet Venus In 1874 It Is The First footage of anything ever.
It Is sometimes regarded to be the first movie ever. - DirectorEadweard MuybridgeStarsGilbert DommSallie GardnerThe clip shows a jockey, Gilbert Domm, riding a horse, Sallie Gardner. The clip is not filmed; instead, it consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.Oldest Dated Footage That Claims To Be A Film
This film was the 2nd oldest film that IMDB Classes a movie,Even Though it isn't recorded. - DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceA frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.Earliest Live Recording
While Not classed as a film or movie,Man Walking Around the Corner is considered the first recorded footage ever,This Was Shot by a 16mm camera. - DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.The First Movie
This Film that was recorded in Leeds,UK In October 1888,Is widely regarded as the 1st movie ever made. - DirectorÉmile ReynaudLost 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud about a wanderer who orders a good beer ("Un bon bock") and meets a traveler who also orders a beer. They enter an argument because a kitchen boy steals their beers.First Animated Film
Not Much Is Known about this movie,However,This Is the first animated movie ever created. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsWilliam K.L. DicksonThe earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.First Use Of Sound
This Short 17 Second Movie depicts 3 men,One Who Plays A Violin,The 2 Others dancing along with it,Along With sound being audible. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonFirst Lost Film
This Movie Is Completely lost as only one still frame from the supposed movie still exists online,their have been similar films from not long from the supposed relase date to not along ago modern times.
It Is also to be the first film to explore the issue of drug use. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsHenry Welton"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)First Movie To Feature Cats
This Short film produced and made by The Thomas Edison Company's shows 2 Cats Boxing as A Man And Possible Offscreen Onlookers watch the fight,If you Disregard Sallie Gardner at a Gallop,This Is an early example in animals in movies and films. - DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.The First Movie Shown To An Audience
This Film was screened under a French café in 1896 along with many others including Arrival Of A Train,This Was also the first movie to be screened by a projector. - DirectorBirt AcresA policeman catches a pickpocket, who slips from his jacket but is caught by a sailor.The First Crime Film
This 30 Second Film depicts a pickpocket running away from a policeman,Then The pickpocket runs into a sailor and gets captured and arrested,This Is The oldest film of the genre of crime. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsAnnabelle MooreAnnabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.First Colour Film
Even Though Edmund Ray Turner's 110 year Old Home Footage from 1902 that was discovered In September 2012 Was first considered the first colour film,Later versions of a old 1895 Film Called Annabelle Serpentine Dance were hand tinted with multiple colours,Making Those versions the first colour films instead. - DirectorAlfred ClarkStarsRobert ThomaeMrs. Robert L. ThomasThis short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.The First Use Of Camera Tricks
This Movie Depicts the execution of the infamous famous queen in Scotland in the pre 1800's,This Reconstruction of the famous execution uses a camera trick that involves a split second change from the actress being there and the second being replaced by a dummy,It Can easily be seen but many people thought it was real. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsWith the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.The First Horror Film
Even Though strange and boring,This Film was and still is considered by many to be the first film with a horror related storyline,Maybe The first movie with a storyline at all. - DirectorWilliam HeiseStarsMay IrwinJohn C. RiceIn a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.The First Movie For Demanded Censorship
This Movie is a simple 1 Minute video about 2 broad-way stars kissing,The Public somehow didn't like it and wanted it to be censored,There Would be so many movies that would go on to break this record of complaints. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJeanne BradyJehanne d'AlcyThe first film to ever show a nudity scene on screen is a simple presentation of a servant preparing a bath for another woman.First Nudity Illusion
This Film involves a woman after a ball,Getting Into her bath while she is nude,However they used a trick during this scene to make it look like the actress nude. - DirectorJan KrízeneckýStarsJosef Sváb-MalostranskýFirst Czech Film
Not Much is known about this film,However it is the earliest known screened film in the country. - DirectorWalter Pfeffer DandoWilliam K.L. DicksonHerbert Beerbohm TreeStarsHerbert Beerbohm TreeDora TullochCharles SeftonKing John does whatever it takes to keep himself on the throne of England, making enemies of the pope, France, and his nephew along the way.The First Adaption Film
The First Film To be based on some other piece of fiction was King John In 1899,It Shows the death scene of one of Shakespere's characters King John. - First Film To Have Football In It
While There might have been a couple of football scenes in earlier movies before this 1902 Flick,However It Is the first film with the famous football teams Burnley And Manchester United In It. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.First Major Successful Film/First Sci-Fi Film
The Trip To The Moon Is considered the first film to become an iconic masterpiece ever,Also The First Film to have a sci-fi related storyline ever made. - DirectorGeorge S. FlemingEdwin S. PorterStarsEdwin S. PorterVivian VaughanArthur WhiteA fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.First Use Of Cross-Cutting
This Important Flick was the first film to use the first use of cross-cutting,A Camera Trick that switches between different scenes,This Use of the infamous camera trick can be scene throughout the movie. - DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonA.C. AbadieGeorge BarnesA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.The First Successful Film In America
The Great Train Robbery only came out a year after A Trip To the Moon,Both Of witch are remembered as Great Successes,The Only Difference is that they were made in different regions. - DirectorCharles TaitStarsElizabeth TaitJohn TaitNicholas BrierleyOriginally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.The First Feature Length Film
This story about the infamous Australian Outlaws is estimated to run at 70 Minutes Long Making it the world's first feature length film - DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary FullerCharles OgleAugustus PhillipsThe first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.First Frankenstein Movie
This 16 Minute movie from 1910 Shows the famous monster following his owner around after creation. - StarsNat C. GoodwinVinnie BurnsCharley RogersAn orphan in early 19th century England escapes the poorhouse only to fall among a gang of pickpockets in London.First American Movie
This Movie is the first official American Movie ever commercially made. - DirectorOscar ApfelCecil B. DeMilleStarsDustin FarnumMonroe SalisburyWinifred KingstonA chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.First Feature Length Western Movie
This Movie About A British Officer in the western united states is the first movie with a western related storyline.